Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock() | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:43:56 +1000 |
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On Monday 04 August 2008 18:45:07 you wrote: > > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c > > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/it8712f_wdt.c > > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c > > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c > > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c > > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c > > I sent fixes for all of those to the watchdog maintainer in May. The > patches are still sitting with the maintainer. They all convert to proper > locking rather than sem abuse, clean up all the coding style and fix > numerous bugs plus remove BKL requirements. > > Wim it appears is still trying to get real life stuff sorted out so I > think at this point we really need a new watchdog maintainer.
Perhaps if noone steps forward soon you should shepherd them through linux-next for the next merge window?
Rusty.
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