On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 2:14 AM George Stark [off-list ref] wrote:

Hello Andy

On 2/12/24 12:53, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 1:52 AM George Stark [off-list ref] wrote:

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I haven't lose hope for the devm_mutex thing and keep pinging those guys
from time to time.

I don't understand. According to v4 thread Christophe proposed on how
the patch should look like. What you need is to incorporate an updated
version into your series. Am I wrong?

We agreed that the effective way of implementing devm_mutex_init() is in
mutex.h using forward declaration of struct device.
The only inconvenient thing is that in the mutex.h mutex_init() declared
after mutex_destroy() so we'll have to use condition #ifdef
CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES twice. Waiman Long proposed great cleanup patch [1]
that eliminates the need of doubling #ifdef. That patch was reviewed a
bit but it's still unapplied (near 2 months). I'm still trying to
contact mutex.h guys but there're no any feedback yet.

So the roadmap (as I see it) is:
- convince Lee to take the first patch while waiting for the others
- incorporate the above mentioned patch into your series
- make an ultimatum in case there is no reaction to get it applied on
deadline, let's say within next cycle (if Lee is okay with a such, but
this is normal practice when some maintainers are non-responsive)

P.S. In case Lee doesn't want to take the first patch separately
(let's say this week), send a new version with amended patches
included.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231216013656.1382213-2-longman@redhat.com/T/#m795b230d662c1debb28463ad721ddba5b384340a (local)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko