Re: [PATCH] Adaptec AACRAID: convert fibctx->wait_sem to completion

From: James Bottomley
Date: Wed Feb 13 2008 - 14:09:27 EST


On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 19:34 +0100, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> Adaptec AACRAID driver: The semaphore fibctx->wait_sem is used for
> signalling an event. Convert it to a completion.

What's the purpose of doing this? The aacraid implementation seems to
be a classic PV semaphore, so why does it need to become a completion?

James


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