Re: [PATCH] i2c: update for semaphore to mutex conversion of devices

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Tue Mar 09 2010 - 05:39:58 EST


On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:36:50 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:25:08 +0100 Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder Stephen. I was only waiting for device_lock()
> > to become usable in mainline. Now that it happened, I will take the
> > patch above in my i2c tree, and send it to Linus in my next batch.
>
> Thanks. The include of mutex.h is not actually needed yet as Greg didn't
> send the semaphore to mutex change to Linus due to other issues.

It will never be needed, and I also removed the include of semaphore.h.
The beauty of the new API is that it hides the implementation details
from the caller!

> The
> device_lock/unlock part would be useful, though for when the change does
> happen.

Of course.

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Jean Delvare
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