Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Well, in case of a semaphore it is a semantically correct use case. In
> case of of a mutex it is not.

I disagree.

Think of "initialization" as a user. The system starts out initializing 
stuff, and as such the mutex should start out being held. It's that 
simple. It _is_ mutual exclusion, with one user being the early bootup 
state.

		Linus
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