On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:50:37PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:59:53 -0800 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:28:28AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > I have been carrying this patch in linux-next for some time and now > > > mainline needs it. > > > > Well, it's not required, but it is nice to have. I didn't merge the > > "convert the driver core semaphore to a mutex" patch as it was causing > > too many false-positive lockdep warnings. > > Ah, I missed that, sorry. > > Strangely, I was assuming that what was in linux-next would get merged :-) That is normally the case, but when patches are found to have problems, due to the testing that happens with linux-next, they can then be not sent to Linus, right? That's what happened here, we need more infrastructure to be able to accept them. I see it as a validation that our development model is working properly that this happened :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
