linux-kernel - Re: powerpc: eeh_event: convert semaphore to completion

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Date:   Sat, 22 Dec 2018 20:54:42 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>,
        Sam Bobroff <sbobroff@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@...il.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: powerpc: eeh_event: convert semaphore to completion

On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 21:51:57 UTC, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> For this use case, completions and semaphores are equivalent,
> but semaphores are an awkward interface that should generally
> be avoided, so use the completion instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2fea82db113e4422ef5c8e62099088

cheers