Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:00:21 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree


It's been a Good Idea for a while to use mutexes instead of
semaphores where possible.  Additional debuggability, better optimised,
better-enforced semantics, etc.

Obviously, there are some places that can't be converted to mutexes.
I'm not proposing blind changes.  I've been through a dozen places
and found some that can be converted to spinlocks, others to
completions, but mostly to mutexes.  So as not to lose these patches,
I've made them available as a git tree.  I think the right way to get
these patches in will be to go through the maintainers of each file.

I'll post a list of the places using semaphores later.  My current list
is a bit out of date and contains insulting comments that I would like
to rephrase before the authors of the code in question see them ;-)

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=semaphore-removal

Stephen, could you pick these patches up for linux-next?

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git semaphore-removal

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"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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