From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
greg@kroah.com, Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>,
Steve Lord <lord@xfs.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: RT and XFS
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:08:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050714160835.GA19229@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1121356618.14816.45.camel@c-67-188-6-232.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:56:58AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> This reminds me of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt . That no one
> should really be dependent on a particular kernel API doing a particular
> thing. The kernel is play dough for the kernel hacker (as it should be),
> including kernel semaphores.
>
> So we can change whatever we want, and make no excuses, as long as we
> fix the rest of the kernel to work with our change. That seems pretty
> sensible , because Linux should be an evolution.
Daniel, get a fucking clue. Read some CS 101 literature on what a semaphore
is defined to be. If you want PI singing dancing blinking christmas tree
locking primites call them a mutex, but not a semaphore.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-14 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-12 23:01 RT and XFS Daniel Walker
2005-07-12 23:39 ` William Weston
2005-07-13 0:25 ` Nathan Scott
2005-07-13 0:41 ` Daniel Walker
2005-07-13 0:37 ` Nathan Scott
2005-07-13 6:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-13 16:45 ` Daniel Walker
2005-07-14 0:22 ` Nathan Scott
2005-07-14 3:50 ` Dave Chinner
2005-07-14 4:10 ` Daniel Walker
[not found] ` <20050714052347.GA18813@elte.hu>
2005-07-14 15:56 ` Daniel Walker
2005-07-14 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-07-18 12:10 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-07-19 3:26 ` Bill Huey
2005-07-19 12:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-19 13:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-07-19 13:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-14 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-07-15 10:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-15 16:16 ` Daniel Walker
2005-07-18 11:33 ` Esben Nielsen
2005-07-19 3:31 ` Bill Huey
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