Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:24:30 +0000
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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

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