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

Andi Kleen
2005-12-13T09:24:39Z

> Spose so - I don't know what people are using out there.

I don't think it was shipped in major distros at least (AFAIK)
They all went from 2.95 to 3.1/3.2

Perhaps stick an error for 3.0 in and wait if people are complaining?

>
> > AFAIK it has never been widely used. If we assume 3.1+ minimum it has the
> > advantage that named assembly arguments work, which make
> > the inline assembly often a lot easier to read and maintain.
>
> There are a few places in the tree which refuse to compile with 3.1 and 3.2.

Really? Which ones?

Haven't seen that and I still use 3.2 occasionally (it's the default
compiler on SLES9 and I believe on RHEL3 too)

-Andi