Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:36:32 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class |
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Jarek Poplawski wrote: >> David Brownell wrote: >> > On Monday 07 January 2008, Greg KH wrote: >> >> Most of the non-driver core code should be converted to not use the >> >> lock in the class at all. They should use a local lock instead. >> > >> > Or better yet, that yet-to-be-written class_for_each_instance() >> > iterator ... :) ... > I hope I'm wrong, but IMHO it should be safer not to mix such changes, > so do the mutexes first or delay them until the end. Otherwise some > false blaming seems almost inevitable.
I agree. Sem2mutex conversion should not be mixed with API conversion, even if one or both seem trivial. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- ---= --=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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