Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932071AbWANNWU (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:22:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751282AbWANNWU (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:22:20 -0500 Received: from smtprelay04.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.16]:17028 "EHLO smtprelay04.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751404AbWANNWT (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:22:19 -0500 From: Ingo Oeser To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chaosite@gmail.com Subject: Re: [patch 00/62] sem2mutex: -V1 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:22:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Jes Sorensen , Greg KH References: <20060113124402.GA7351@elte.hu> <20060113195658.GA3780@elte.hu> <43C815E3.10005@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43C815E3.10005@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2287981.FuHF0FjZ6I"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601141422.16760.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1504 Lines: 55 --nextPart2287981.FuHF0FjZ6I Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 13 January 2006 22:04, Matan Peled wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Ingo Oeser wrote: > >> Could we get for each of these and a mutex: > >> > >> - description=20 > >> - common use case > >> - small argument why this and nothing else should be used there > >=20 > > like ... Documentation/mutex-design.txt? >=20 > I think what he wanted was an explanation for the change of each and ever= y=20 > sem... Which is kind of hard with automated tools. No this is too much! I wouldn't expect this. Just example conversions for each 3 conversion types with full discussion=20 (or discussion at all) like we do for all other patches would be enough. semaphore -> mutex is explained a bit in Documentation/mutex-design.txt Still missing: - semaphore -> completion - semaphore -> struct work Regards Ingo Oeser --nextPart2287981.FuHF0FjZ6I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDyPsIU56oYWuOrkARAt55AKDkW3m7c+J/vUM/qeh49/oGRQhuhgCbBx26 HEPuBsbwHUxDgfrFt8FfSM0= =/AaD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2287981.FuHF0FjZ6I-- - 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/