Re: [PATCH 2/3] struct class sem to mutex converting
From: Dave Young
Date: Tue May 13 2008 - 21:34:24 EST
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:22:31PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > The class_device is already removed, so do the class->sem to mutex converting.
>
> Are you sure this will work? Have you tried running lockdep to verify
> that there are no problems here? People have tried this in the past
> with devices and I don't think it will work here either :(
Yes, lockdep doesn't generate warnings on my side.
I ever wanted to do the conversion, please see:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/12/49
The result is that device sem2mutex is not possible now, but class
sem2mutex is possible. After the class_device removing, all the
class->sem usage exist in class.c except for i2c part.
So I make i2c to use class_for_each_device api, so we can do the
class->sem conversion.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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