Re: [PATCH 1/2] locking/mutex: Clean up mutex.h

[George Stark]

On 2/13/24 06:28, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 2/11/24 18:28, George Stark wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Excuse me, this is my 4th letter here since December 2023 and there's 
> > no response unfortunately.
> >
> >
> > Just to recall that we had the discussion in December 2023 about 
> > implementing devm_mutex_init. We came to conclusion that the only 
> > effective way to do it in include/linux/mutex.h but mutex.h requires
> > some cleanups to simplify the devm_mutex_init patch.
> > mutex.h owners proposed such a cleanup patch themselves and there's no 
> > progress since that. How can we move forward on those patches?
> >
> > Cleanup patch:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231216013656.1382213-1-longman@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Original problem that requires devm_mutex_init and discussion:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZcZeRmVjEPhVPW9-@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m0f514f8f96e18db9568f84b2df37aaf648874a4a
>
> Sorry for my late reply. My cleanup patch was sent at the later half of 
> Dec 2023. It is probably not a good time as maintainers are either busy 
> or taking time off. I have resent the patch again with other cleanup 
> patches. Hopefully those patches can be merged soon.

Hello Waiman.

Good to see you again. I'm sorry if I was too impatient. Thanks for 
updating your patch series.

> Cheers,
> Longman

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Best regards
George