Re: [PATCH 2/3] acpi: semaphore removal

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On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 18:15 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:16:53AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > The semaphore is used pretty extensively in acpi, but the actual
> > usage model is really more like completions. The ASL functions
> > getting implemented here are signals which follow a "wait for",
> > signaled, or rest format.
> > 
> > This implements the ACPI signaling methods with the Linux
> > completion API, instead of using semaphores.
> > 
> > completion_done() taken from Dave Chinner.
> 
> The patch series that contained completion_done() is (AFAIK)
> in the -mm tree at the moment. You'd probably do best to keep
> it as a separate patch in your series so we don't end up with
> random conflicts all over the place....

Yeah,  I will eventually pull it out .. I'm not too worried about it,
since these patches are a ways from even going into -mm ..

Daniel

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