linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex

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Date:	Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:34:06 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux@...mer.net, jonathan@...masters.org,
	matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 11:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> 
> > The port_mutex is actually a semaphore, so easily converted to a 
> > struct mutex.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> 
> cool. How far away are we from being able to remove all the semaphore 
> code? :-)

I wish my 7 patches made a dent, but it's hasn't done much. ;(

I would guess at least a week just to mop up the relatively easy ones..
I've got 12 in my queue, and there still ~50 hopefully trivial ones
still to be looked at.. Then another ~30 more difficult ones (that use
init_MUTEX_LOCKED, or sema_init with 0 instead of 1) ..

Daniel

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