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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Cc: aacraid@adaptec.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adaptec AACRAID: convert fibctx->wait_sem to completion
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:09:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202929740.3109.79.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080213183444.GA27068@traven>

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 19:34 +0100, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> Adaptec AACRAID driver: The semaphore fibctx->wait_sem is used for
> signalling an event. Convert it to a completion.

What's the purpose of doing this?  The aacraid implementation seems to
be a classic PV semaphore, so why does it need to become a completion?

James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13 18:34 [PATCH] Adaptec AACRAID: convert fibctx->wait_sem to completion Matthias Kaehlcke
2008-02-13 19:05 ` Salyzyn, Mark
2008-02-13 19:09 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2008-02-13 20:15   ` Matthias Kaehlcke

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