From: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@atmel.com>,
Austin Shin <austin.shin@atmel.com>,
Chris Park <chris.park@atmel.com>, Tony Cho <tony.cho@atmel.com>,
Glen Lee <glen.lee@atmel.com>, Leo Kim <leo.kim@atmel.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores with mutexes or completions ***
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:18:04 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHv-k__2APMhcgD6VoQ1DX9XebO5P=5eaqfACvk8U5Sd-XfvCQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3475016.uenfZZHUnB@wuerfel>
On 13 June 2016 at 19:59, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Monday, June 13, 2016 4:07:32 PM CEST Binoy Jayan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> These are a set of patches which removes semaphores from:
>>
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000
>>
>> These are part of a bigger effort to eliminate all semaphores
>> from the linux kernel.
>>
>> They build correctly (individually and as a whole).
>>
>> NB: The changes are untested
>>
>
> Most of these look really good, but I've commented on what I think
> should be done differently, most importantly using a work_queue
> rather than a completion to replace the semaphore in patch 6.
>
> Maybe you can resend the first five patches after addressing
> my comments so we can get those tested and queued already while
> you look into reworking patch 6. Let me know if that one ends up
> being more complicated than I thought so we can come up with
> a different approach.
>
> Arnd
Thank you for reviewing the patches thoroughly. I overlooked the
problem with using
completion directly. Thank you for pointing that out. As you have
suggested, I'll rework
on the first 5 patches and work on the last one.
Binoy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-13 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-13 10:37 [PATCH 0/7] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores with mutexes or completions *** Binoy Jayan
2016-06-13 10:37 ` [PATCH 1/7] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore txq_event with completion Binoy Jayan
2016-06-13 10:37 ` [PATCH 2/7] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore txq_add_to_head_cs with mutex Binoy Jayan
2016-06-13 13:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-13 10:37 ` [PATCH 3/7] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore cfg_event with completion Binoy Jayan
2016-06-13 13:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-13 10:37 ` [PATCH 4/7] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore sync_event " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-13 10:37 ` [PATCH 5/7] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore close_exit_sync " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-13 13:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-13 10:37 ` [PATCH 6/7] staging: wilc1000: message_queue: Replace semaphore sem " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-13 14:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-13 10:37 ` [PATCH 7/7] staging: wilc1000: Remove unused inclusion of semaphore header Binoy Jayan
2016-06-13 14:29 ` [PATCH 0/7] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores with mutexes or completions *** Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-13 14:48 ` Binoy Jayan [this message]
2016-06-15 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-15 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore txq_event with completion Binoy Jayan
2016-06-15 5:30 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores with mutexes or completions *** Binoy Jayan
2016-06-15 5:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore txq_event with completion Binoy Jayan
2016-06-15 5:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore txq_add_to_head_cs with mutex Binoy Jayan
2016-06-15 5:30 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore cfg_event with completion Binoy Jayan
2016-06-15 5:30 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphore sync_event " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-15 5:30 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] staging: wilc1000: Remove semaphore close_exit_sync Binoy Jayan
2016-06-20 10:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores *** Binoy Jayan
2016-06-20 10:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] staging: wilc1000: message_queue: Move code to host interface Binoy Jayan
2016-06-20 10:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] staging: wilc1000: Replace kthread with workqueue for " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-21 16:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-22 10:01 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores *** Binoy Jayan
2016-06-22 10:01 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] staging: wilc1000: message_queue: Move code to host interface Binoy Jayan
2016-06-22 10:01 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] staging: wilc1000: Replace kthread with workqueue for " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-22 10:01 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] staging: wilc1000: Change interface wilc_mq_send to wilc_enqueue_cmd Binoy Jayan
2016-06-22 11:06 ` kbuild test robot
2016-06-23 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores *** Binoy Jayan
2016-06-23 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] staging: wilc1000: message_queue: Move code to host interface Binoy Jayan
2016-06-23 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] staging: wilc1000: Replace kthread with workqueue for " Binoy Jayan
2016-06-23 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] staging: wilc1000: Change interface wilc_mq_send to wilc_enqueue_cmd Binoy Jayan
2016-06-23 9:32 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores *** Arnd Bergmann
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