Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock()

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From: Rusty Russell

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock()

Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 - 4:43 am

On Monday 04 August 2008 18:45:07 you wrote:
quoted text> >       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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Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Rusty Russell, (Tue Jul 29, 6:01 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Randy Dunlap, (Tue Jul 29, 9:21 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Rusty Russell, (Tue Jul 29, 4:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 10:26 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 10:40 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 11:22 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Rusty Russell, (Sun Aug 3, 1:33 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Matthew Wilcox, (Sun Aug 3, 6:07 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Linus Torvalds, (Sun Aug 3, 10:33 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Linus Torvalds, (Sun Aug 3, 10:35 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Rusty Russell, (Sun Aug 3, 8:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Linus Torvalds, (Sun Aug 3, 10:53 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Rusty Russell, (Mon Aug 4, 12:57 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from ..., Alan Cox, (Mon Aug 4, 1:45 am)

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