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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] updates XFS mutex patch
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:59:35AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please find attached an updated patch for the XFS using MUTEX
> patch.
> 
> Note this is a replacement patch for the previous one.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jes
> 
> This patch switches XFS over to use the new mutex code directly as
> opposed to the previous workaround patch I posted earlier that avoided
> the namespace clash by forcing it back to semaphores. This falls in the
> 'works for me<tm>' category.

It's say just switch XFS to the one-arg mutex_init variant.

And ingo. please add the mutex_t typedef, analogue to spinlock_t it's a totally
opaqueue to the users type, so it really should be a typedef.  After that
the XFS mutex.h can just go away.

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