linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/30] semaphore cleanup

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Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:27:54 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/30] semaphore cleanup

On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> init_MUTEX[_LOCKED] and DECLARE_MUTEX are deprecated for quite some
> time. Cleanup the remaining users and remove the cruft.

How many of these really need to be semaphores and can't be converted
to mutex or completion? I thought that we wanted to send the classic
semaphore the same way as the BKL eventually.

	Arnd
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