Re: [PATCH 1/5] Power Management: use mutexes instead of semaphores

On Fri, 4 May 2007 09:08:40 +0200 Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I note that none of these patches added a #include <linux/mutex.h>.  Each C
> > file which uses mutexes should do that, rather than relying upon accidental
> > nested includes.  I hope you're checking for that.
> 
> initially i added the include line (i think at least one patch still
> contains it), but then i realized that in most cases the original code
> doesn't include semaphore.h and i (mis-)interpreted that it should be
> handled the same way (relying upon nested includes) for mutexes. 
> 
> do you want me to send you a version of the patches containing the
> include?

erm, is OK, I'll make the changes.
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