Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc4-V0.7.47-06

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 30 2005 - 09:54:14 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> * Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the explanation. In that case calling init_MUTEX_LOCKED on
> > an RT semaphore is obviously wrong. However, it only produces a
> > warning during the compilation and is guaranteed to BUG when run. It
> > would be better if it obviously failed to compile. How about the
> > attached patch? That makes the compilation fail like this:
>
> agreed - i've added your patch to my tree.

with a small modification: i turned the error into a link-time error,
because gcc parses both branches and will give a compiler-time warning
even if the proper compat_semaphore is used.

Ingo
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