[PATCH] staging: goldfish: switch from spinlock to mutex

[Kristina Martšenko]

On 04/04/14 16:30, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:46:14PM +0300, Kristina Martšenko wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I didn't find any interrupt handlers either, which is partially why
>> I thought it was (probably) safe.
> 
> What's the other part of why it was safe?  Put that stuff in the
> changelog.  When we're reviewing patches we're always interested to know
> if it's safe.  :)

The other part was whether the code was allowed to sleep. I figured it
probably was since it's only accessed from MTD callback functions and
other drivers in drivers/mtd/devices/ also sleep in those functions
(either by using mutexes or by calling schedule() directly).

I didn't mention why I thought it was safe in the changelog because I
thought maybe the reasons would seem too "obvious" to more experienced
kernel developers.

Should I test and resend the patch with a new changelog?

Kristina