Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Fri Dec 07 2007 - 02:41:26 EST


El Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:12:05PM +0100 Remy Bohmer ha dit:

> Which do you have exactly on your list? (good to know, it prevents
> double work...)

it isn't really an elaborated list, until now i greped for certain
semaphore usages, had a look at the code and converted it if
necessary. at the moment i'm having a look at usb drivers.

> 2007/12/6, Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > El Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:34:06AM -0800 Daniel Walker ha dit:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 11:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The port_mutex is actually a semaphore, so easily converted to a
> > > > > struct mutex.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > cool. How far away are we from being able to remove all the semaphore
> > > > code? :-)
> > >
> > > I wish my 7 patches made a dent, but it's hasn't done much. ;(
> > >
> > > I would guess at least a week just to mop up the relatively easy ones..
> > > I've got 12 in my queue, and there still ~50 hopefully trivial ones
> > > still to be looked at.. Then another ~30 more difficult ones (that use
> > > init_MUTEX_LOCKED, or sema_init with 0 instead of 1) ..
> >
> > I've also more patches of this type on my list, though i work in a
> > slower pace
> >
> >
> > You must have a plan. If you don't have a plan,
> > you'll become part of somebody else's plan
> > .''`.
> > using free software / Debian GNU/Linux | http://debian.org : :' :
> > `. `'`
> > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 47D8E5D4 `-
> >

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