Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

2011-09-04 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 26-08-2011 07:10, Andreas Oberritter escreveu: On 24.08.2011 20:54, Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org wrote: Instead of wasting your time with theory, you could have easily reviewed my patch. It's really *very* simple any anyone

Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

2011-08-26 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On 24.08.2011 20:54, Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org wrote: Instead of wasting your time with theory, you could have easily reviewed my patch. It's really *very* simple any anyone having used semphores or mutexes in the kernel

Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

2011-08-24 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org wrote: Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org This may seem like a silly question, but *why* are you making this change? There is no explanation for what prompted it. Is it in response to some issue you

Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

2011-08-24 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org wrote: It's impossible to clean up dvb_frontend.c, which looks quite unmaintained, without touching it. It is quite unmaintained. In fact, it was broken for numerous cards for almost two years before I finally got someone in

Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

2011-08-24 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On 24.08.2011 20:06, Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org wrote: It's impossible to clean up dvb_frontend.c, which looks quite unmaintained, without touching it. It is quite unmaintained. In fact, it was broken for numerous cards for

Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

2011-08-24 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On 24.08.2011 19:54, Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org wrote: Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org This may seem like a silly question, but *why* are you making this change? There is no explanation for what prompted

Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

2011-08-24 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Andreas Oberritter o...@linuxtv.org wrote: Instead of wasting your time with theory, you could have easily reviewed my patch. It's really *very* simple any anyone having used semphores or mutexes in the kernel should be able to see that. There's no need to