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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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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