On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:55 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > Especially now that semaphores are not duplicated per > architecture > > > anymore so actually keeping them around is not that costly. > > > > Having them around might give people the idea its a good idea to use > > them. Not having them around is a good way to discourage that. > > We'll end up making completions be more of a mess than semaphores ever > were or pushing semaphore implementations into every user that really > wanted a counting semaphore implementation. People need to drop this > crusade, it's causing more harm than good. I'm not trying to push that .. I would like it if completions stayed roughly the same, and the code using semaphores was changed to use mutexes, instead of making completions look like semaphores .. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
