Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750846AbVLTIVO (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 03:21:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750847AbVLTIVO (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 03:21:14 -0500 Received: from smtp109.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.242]:25773 "HELO smtp109.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750845AbVLTIVN (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 03:21:13 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=WDFIHMyeeBIwXio3PRrE7zSFFrkACufSacaEBmrUA45qFonSIPaN/Xav1b7Nw/DWqmanNJn+DclHj8DMZ5Vg0sL3FBnrcLSwS6LbQCMAAbV9jtGCIpq+2X0OzFp9JEqf646XMH7DEh0kc+eyJAX/Zb9KpgIdB4+lqni6nDbry84= ; Message-ID: <43A7BEF6.3010202@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:21:10 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Steven Rostedt , Alan Cox , Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , Alexander Viro , Oleg Nesterov , Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: [patch 00/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem References: <20051219013415.GA27658@elte.hu> <20051219042248.GG23384@wotan.suse.de> <20051219155010.GA7790@elte.hu> <20051219195553.GA14155@elte.hu> <43A7BAB5.7020201@yahoo.com.au> <1135066007.2952.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1135066007.2952.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 25 Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>If we agree mutex is a good idea at all (and I think it is), then >>wouldn't it be better to aim for a wholesale conversion rather than >>"if people want to"? > > > well most of this will "only" take a few kernel releases ;-) > OK, so in my mind that is aiming for a wholesale conversion. And yes I would expect the semaphore to stay around for a while... But I thought Linus phrased it as though mutex should be made available and no large scale conversions. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/