Re: [PATCH 5/5] acpi: semaphore removal

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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:59:43AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> The semaphore usage in ACPI is more like completions. The ASL
> functions getting implemented here are signals which follow a
> "wait for", signaled, or reset format.
> 
> This implements the ACPI signaling methods with the Linux
> completion API, instead of using semaphores.
> 
> completion_done() taken from Dave Chinner.

completion_done is an abomination.  Stop this.

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