Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

Alan Cox
2005-12-14T11:24:49Z

On Mer, 2005-12-14 at 12:08 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 1) the BKL change hasn't finished, and we're 5 years down the line. API
> changes done gradual tend to take forever in practice, esp if there's no
> "compile" incentive for people to fix things.

This isn't a "fix" however, its merely a performance tweak. Drivers
using the old API are not a problem because

a) The old API is needed long term for true counting sem users
b) Its a minor performance hit at most

Thats rather different to the BKL