Re: [PATCH 1/3] acpi: add real mutex function calls

Daniel Walker
2008-07-21T20:22:15Z

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:55 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > Especially now that semaphores are not duplicated per
> architecture
> > > anymore so actually keeping them around is not that costly.
> >
> > Having them around might give people the idea its a good idea to use
> > them. Not having them around is a good way to discourage that.
>
> We'll end up making completions be more of a mess than semaphores ever
> were or pushing semaphore implementations into every user that really
> wanted a counting semaphore implementation. People need to drop this
> crusade, it's causing more harm than good.

I'm not trying to push that .. I would like it if completions stayed
roughly the same, and the code using semaphores was changed to use
mutexes, instead of making completions look like semaphores ..

Daniel