Re: [PATCH 2/3] acpi: semaphore removal

Dave Chinner
2008-07-20T08:15:18Z

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:16:53AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> The semaphore is used pretty extensively in acpi, but the actual
> usage model is really more like completions. The ASL functions
> getting implemented here are signals which follow a "wait for",
> signaled, or rest format.
>
> This implements the ACPI signaling methods with the Linux
> completion API, instead of using semaphores.
>
> completion_done() taken from Dave Chinner.

The patch series that contained completion_done() is (AFAIK)
in the -mm tree at the moment. You'd probably do best to keep
it as a separate patch in your series so we don't end up with
random conflicts all over the place....

Cheers,

Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com