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From: Jiri Kosina
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core
Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 9:54 am

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, David Brownell wrote:


And it would also do something completely different compared to what 
lockdep is doing now.

The point is being able to spot the potential deadlock before it actually 
happens. If you track individual instances instead of classess, you are 
out of luck with this.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Dec 28, 6:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Fri Dec 28, 6:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Fri Dec 28, 6:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Dec 28, 6:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Dec 28, 6:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Fri Dec 28, 7:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Fri Dec 28, 7:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Greg KH, (Fri Dec 28, 9:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Fri Dec 28, 10:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Sat Dec 29, 12:07 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Greg KH, (Sat Dec 29, 10:07 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Alan Stern, (Sat Dec 29, 3:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Sun Dec 30, 5:13 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Tue Jan 1, 5:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Greg KH, (Tue Jan 1, 10:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., David Miller, (Tue Jan 1, 10:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Tue Jan 1, 10:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Greg KH, (Wed Jan 2, 12:00 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., David Miller, (Wed Jan 2, 12:52 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Jarek Poplawski, (Wed Jan 2, 5:39 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Jarek Poplawski, (Wed Jan 2, 6:12 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Alan Stern, (Wed Jan 2, 9:06 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Alan Stern, (Wed Jan 2, 9:08 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Dave Young, (Wed Jan 2, 6:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Andrew Morton, (Sat Jan 5, 2:30 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver ..., Jiri Kosina, (Tue Jan 8, 9:54 am)