Re: [netfilter-core] [patch 2.6.15-mm4] sem2mutex: netfilterx_table.c

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 21:46:08 EST


Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > semaphore to mutex conversion.
> >
> > the conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
> > automatically via a script as well.
>
> I haven't followed all the mutex patches, is this intended
> for mainline or for -mm?

You're probably better off ignoring it all for now. Once things have
settled down and all the sem2mutex patches have been finalised and
reasonably tested I'll send whatever hasn't been merged into subsystem
trees over to the relevant maintainers.

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt might help
shed some light on the intricacies of -mm patches.
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