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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] Power Management: use mutexes instead of semaphores
El Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:54:32PM -0700 Andrew Morton ha dit:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:43:22 +0200 Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > the Power Management code uses semaphores as mutexes. use the mutex
> > API instead of the (binary) semaphores
>
> I know it's a little thing, but given a choice between
>
> a) changelogs which use capital letters and fullstops and
>
> b) changelogs which do not,
>
> I think a) gives a better result.

thanks for your suggestion, i'll take it into account for future patches

> I note that none of these patches added a #include <linux/mutex.h>. Each C
> file which uses mutexes should do that, rather than relying upon accidental
> nested includes. I hope you're checking for that.

initially i added the include line (i think at least one patch still
contains it), but then i realized that in most cases the original code
doesn't include semaphore.h and i (mis-)interpreted that it should be
handled the same way (relying upon nested includes) for mutexes.

do you want me to send you a version of the patches containing the
include?

regards

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