From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux@bohmer.net, jonathan@jonmasters.org,
matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:44:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071206204402.GC23375@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196958847.1568.98.camel@jnielson-xp.ddns.mvista.com>
* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> > cool. How far away are we from being able to remove all the
> > semaphore code? :-)
>
> I wish my 7 patches made a dent, but it's hasn't done much. ;(
it's a beginning.
> I would guess at least a week just to mop up the relatively easy
> ones.. I've got 12 in my queue, and there still ~50 hopefully trivial
> ones still to be looked at.. Then another ~30 more difficult ones
> (that use init_MUTEX_LOCKED, or sema_init with 0 instead of 1) ..
With BKL removal being projected to happen between 5 and 10 years from
now, i think you are moving at lightning's pace :-)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-06 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20071206021857.826386004@mvista.com>
2007-12-05 8:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] stopmachine semaphore to mutex Daniel Walker
2007-12-05 8:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] Amiga serial driver: port_write_mutex fixup Daniel Walker
2007-12-05 8:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex Daniel Walker
2007-12-06 10:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-06 16:34 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-06 20:01 ` Remy Bohmer
2007-12-06 20:12 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-06 20:40 ` Remy Bohmer
2007-12-06 20:05 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-12-06 20:12 ` Remy Bohmer
2007-12-06 20:23 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-07 7:40 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-12-06 20:44 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-12-06 23:30 ` Kevin Winchester
2007-12-07 1:05 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-07 1:29 ` Possible locking issue in viotape.c Kevin Winchester
2007-12-07 1:40 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-08 18:17 ` Kevin Winchester
2007-12-08 18:22 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-08 19:19 ` Kevin Winchester
2007-12-08 19:45 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-06 10:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] stopmachine semaphore to mutex Ingo Molnar
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