On Jan 3, 2008 12:08 AM, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > For most cases, yes, I agree with this, but due to the lockdep issues > > that occur here, and the whole mess with the suspend path and locking > > the device tree, that has been hashed out many times in the past, I am > > interested in trying to see if there is any real reason why this is > > absolutely necessary to convert. > > > > If no one has noticed any issues in this area, I think the complexity > > that will be involved in any such conversion will strongly outweigh any > > simplicity that might be expected. > > > > I'm very open to potential patches to do this, just don't ignore the > > issues that others have run into in the past when attempting this. > > There are two separate things to consider here. One is struct device > and the other is struct class. > > We know that replacing semaphores with mutexes in struct device doesn't > sit well with lockdep. However the replacement may work perfectly > smoothly for struct class. It would be worthwhile for Dave Young to > separate out just that part and try it. > Ok, let me try a new patch only for struct class.
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