Re: [PATCH 11/12] Generic semaphore implementation

Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29T19:22:08Z

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> yummy summary:
>
> 254 files changed, 386 insertions(+), 7827 deletions(-)
>
> The only major conflict is with avr32 which seems to have just done a
> major revamp of that architecture's semaphore implementation. Oh
> well.
>
> There are a couple of small #include rejects here and there, nothing
> at all major.
>
> Yes, let's get this into linux-next if poss please. If mainline later
> breaks for some architecture, well, we did our best..

a better approach would be to send the core bits to Linus right now - as
long as it's Kconfig isolated and inactive code - hence it is eligible
as a cleanup.

That means arch maintainers could start applying the patches at their
own pace, starting right now, in their own work-flow and test-flow.
(obviously, the first such patches would hit mainline starting in the
next merge window)

And all the linux-next integration trouble down the line is avoided, and
each architecture can do a concentrated effort of: 'get rid of semaphore
code'.

Please!

Ingo