Re: [Patch RFC 01/37] semaphore: Add DEFINE_SEMAPHORE, semaphore_init,semaphore_init_locked

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:04:49PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > Maybe you could introduce this _after_ you do the semaphore to
> > completion cleanup .. This init_locked is just adding a bunch of code
> > flux on top of that..
> 
> I agree.  For these 36 patches we should first check if they can
> be trivially converted to mutexes or completions and only change them
> away to the semaphore named initializers.

I have already converted some of the users to mutexes where it was
obvious. It's part of the series. 

Thanks,

	tglx
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