Re: [patch 0/3] MBCS: Convert semaphores to the mutex API

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

El Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:11:49PM -0700 Andrew Morton ha dit:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:08:58 +0200 matthias.kaehlcke@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > MBCS: Convert the semaphores algolock, dmareadlock and dmawritelock to the 
> > mutex API
> 
> Thanks.  Has this actually been runtime-tested?

no, i could only test successfull compilation as i don't have the
device
 
> btw, your patches are in `patch -p2' form:
> 
> --- kernel.orig/linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
> +++ kernel/linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
> 
> should have been in `patch -p1' form:
> 
> --- linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
> 
> I'd suggest that you grab and learn
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/ - it takes care of all these
> things for you.

i actually used quilt for this patchset but must have missed
something. thanks for the pointer!

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