The patch titled ps3: vuart: fix error path locking has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ps3-vuart-fix-error-path-locking.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ps3: vuart: fix error path locking From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> This stray down would cause a permanent sleep which doesn't seem correct. The other uses of this semaphore appear fairly mutex like it's even initialized with init_MUTEX() .. So here a patch for removing this one down(). Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c~ps3-vuart-fix-error-path-locking drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c --- a/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c~ps3-vuart-fix-error-path-locking +++ a/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c @@ -1074,7 +1074,6 @@ static int ps3_vuart_probe(struct ps3_sy if (result) { dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d: drv->probe failed\n", __func__, __LINE__); - down(&vuart_bus_priv.probe_mutex); goto fail_probe; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx are ps3-vuart-fix-error-path-locking.patch git-dvb.patch usb-testing-driver-dont-free-a-locked-mutex.patch git-x86.patch page-allocator-clean-up-pcp-draining-functions-swsusp-fix.patch page-allocator-clean-up-pcp-draining-functions-swsusp-fix-fix.patch drivers-char-tty_ioc-remove-pty_sem.patch drivers-isdn-i4l-isdn_ttyc-remove-write_sem.patch unix98-allocated_ptys_lock-semaphore-to-mutex.patch docs-kernel-locking-convert-semaphore-references.patch stopmachine-semaphore-to-mutex.patch stopmachine-semaphore-to-mutex-fix.patch amiga-serial-driver-port_write_mutex-fixup.patch isapnp-driver-semaphore-to-mutex.patch isapnp-driver-semaphore-to-mutex-fix.patch isapnp-driver-semaphore-to-mutex-fix-fix.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros-fix.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html