14 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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Remove some minor whitespace errors (2 trailing spaces, and one space
needed for a comma) to make the file checkpatch.pl clean with the
exception of the exports, which is fine for now.Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
14 Jan, 2011
2 commits
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* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
block: trace event block fix unassigned field
block: add internal hd part table references
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
kref: add kref_test_and_get
bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
sd: implement sd_check_events()
sr: implement sr_check_events()
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Commit 66fa12c571d3 ("ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack")
eliminated the only user of cdev_index(). So it can be removed too.Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Stefan Richter
Cc: Theodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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The major/minor device numbers are always defined and used as `unsigned'.
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
vfs: make no_llseek the default
vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
lirc: make chardev nonseekable
viotape: use noop_llseek
raw: use explicit llseek file operations
ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
spufs: use llseek in all file operations
arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
drm: use noop_llseek
15 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Julia Lawall
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
22 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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These devices don't do any writeback but their device inodes still can get
dirty so mark bdi appropriately so that bdi code does the right thing and files
inodes to lists of bdi carrying the device inodes.Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
07 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Make /dev/console get initialised before any initialisation routine that
invokes modprobe because if modprobe fails, it's going to want to open
/dev/console, presumably to write an error message to.The problem with that is that if the /dev/console driver is not yet
initialised, the chardev handler will call request_module() to invoke
modprobe, which will fail, because we never compile /dev/console as a
module.This will lead to a modprobe loop, showing the following in the kernel
log:request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1This can happen, for example, when the built in md5 module can't find
the built in cryptomgr module (because the latter fails to initialise).
The md5 module comes before the call to tty_init(), presumably because
'crypto' comes before 'drivers' alphabetically.Fix this by calling tty_init() from chrdev_init().
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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There are two useless lines in fs/char_dev.c.
In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the
kernel object name.
This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in
lib/kobject.c:
228 /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
229 while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
230 s[0] = '!';kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name.
kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop.[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix warning, remove the unused char *s]
Signed-off-by: Renzo Davoli
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (377 commits)
ASoC: au1x: PSC-AC97 bugfixes
ALSA: dummy - Increase MAX_PCM_SUBSTREAMS to 128
ALSA: dummy - Add debug proc file
ALSA: Add const prefix to proc helper functions
ALSA: Re-export snd_pcm_format_name() function
ALSA: hda - Use auto model for HP laptops with ALC268 codec
ALSA: cs46xx - Fix minimum period size
ASoC: Fix WM835x Out4 capture enumeration
ALSA: Remove unneeded ifdef from sound/core.h
ALSA: Remove struct snd_monitor_file from public sound/core.h
ASoC: Remove unuused hw_read_t
sound: oxygen: work around MCE when changing volume
ALSA: dummy - Fake buffer allocations
ALSA: hda/realtek: Added support for CLEVO M540R subsystem, 6 channel + digital
ASoC: fix pxa2xx-ac97.c breakage
ALSA: dummy - Fix the timer calculation in systimer mode
ALSA: dummy - Add more description
ALSA: dummy - Better jiffies handling
ALSA: dummy - Support high-res timer mode
ALSA: Release v1.0.21
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11 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
10 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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[un]register_chrdev() assume minor range 0-255. This patch adds __
prefixed versions which take @minorbase and @count explicitly.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai
13 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPTThis will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers. As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
07 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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It's possible to register a chrdev with a name size exactly the same as
was allocated in structure. It seems it was not intended behaviour.At least chrdev_show does not like it.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Use a single goto label for chrdev_put + return error cases.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
16 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Just always compile the code when the kernel is modular.
Convert load_nls to use try_then_request_module to tidy
up the code.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
21 Jun, 2008
2 commits
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All in-kernel char device open() functions now either have their own
lock_kernel() calls or clearly do not need one.Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
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I stared at this code for a while and almost deleted it before
understanding crept into my slow brain. Hopefully this makes life easier
for the next person to happen on it.Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
29 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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struct char_device_struct::fops is no longer used: remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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There is an outdated comment in serial_core.c also fixed.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jan, 2008
2 commits
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Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename
kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace.Cc: Kay Sievers
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This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
17 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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unregister_chrdev() does not return meaningful value. This patch makes it
return void like most unregister_* functions.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Apr, 2007
1 commit
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Revert all this. It can cause device-mapper to receive a different major from
earlier kernels and it turns out that the Amanda backup program (via GNU tar,
apparently) checks major numbers on files when performing incremental backups.Which is a bit broken of Amanda (or tar), but this feature isn't important
enough to justify the churn.Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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Several people have reported failures in dynamic major device number handling
due to the recent changes in there to avoid handing out the local/experimental
majors.Rolf reports that this is due to a gcc-4.1.0 bug.
The patch refactors that code a lot in an attempt to provoke the compiler into
behaving.Cc: Rolf Eike Beer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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As pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7922, dynamic
chardev major allocation can hand out majors which LANANA has defined as being
for local/experimental use.Cc: Torben Mathiasen
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Tomas Klas
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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Create a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the
sources in the fs/ directory.Move extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to
fs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
30 Sep, 2006
2 commits
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Add some documentation comments for the cdev interface.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer
Acked-by: "Randy.Dunlap"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The code in __register_chrdev_region checks that if the driver wishing to
register has the same major as an existing driver the new minor range is
strictly less than the existing minor range. However, it does not also
check that the new minor range is strictly greater than the existing minor
range. That is, if driver X has registered with major=x and minor=0-3,
__register_chrdev_region will allow driver Y to register with major=x and
minor=1-4.Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland
Cc: Linas Vepstas
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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Set the backing device info capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem to
permit direct sharing under no-MMU conditions and full mapping capabilities
under MMU conditions. Make the BDI used by these available to all directly
mappable character devices.Also comment the capabilities for /dev/zero.
[akpm@osdl.org: ifdef reductions]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Documentation for register_chrdev() was missing completely.
[akpm@osdl.org: kerneldocification]
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
27 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Also fixes up all files that #include it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
01 Apr, 2006
1 commit
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Make baby-simple the code for /proc/devices. Based on the proven design
for /proc/interrupts.This also fixes the early-termination regression 2.6.16 introduced, as
demonstrated by:# dd if=/proc/devices bs=1
Character devices:
1 mem
27+0 records in
27+0 records outThis should also work (but is untested) when /proc/devices >4096 bytes,
which I believe is what the original 2.6.16 rewrite fixed.[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, simplifications]
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty
Cc: Neil Horman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Mar, 2006
2 commits
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This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixupsThe goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the
ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do
stuff" with it.Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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Convert the kobj_map code to use a mutex instead of a semaphore. It
converts the single two users as well, genhd.c and char_dev.c.Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
