Re: [patch 00/62] sem2mutex: -V1

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 23:04 +0200, Matan Peled wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Ingo Oeser wrote:
> >> Could we get for each of these and a mutex:
> >>
> >>  - description 
> >>  - common use case
> >>  - small argument why this and nothing else should be used there
> > 
> > like ... Documentation/mutex-design.txt?
> 
> I think what he wanted was an explanation for the change of each and every 
> sem... Which is kind of hard with automated tools.
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it's also HIGHLY repetitive.
1) The process is : Look at semaphore and it's uses.
2) Decide it's a mutex
3) Run script to convert to mutex
4) Run script to validate the conversion
5) build+boot test

I can't think of a way to describe that uniquely different for each
one ;0



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