Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932188AbWA3JyY (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:54:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932189AbWA3JyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:54:23 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:63125 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932188AbWA3JyV (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:54:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.16-rc1-git4] accessfs: a permission managing filesystem From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Andrew Morton , olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de, eike-kernel@sf-tec.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <87ek3a8qpy.fsf@goat.bogus.local> <200601231257.28796@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> <87mzhgyomh.fsf@goat.bogus.local> <20060128150137.5ba5af04.akpm@osdl.org> <20060130011630.60f402d8.akpm@osdl.org> <1138614388.2977.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:54:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1138614856.2977.16.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 23 On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 10:51 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> >DECLARE_MUTEX will go away. > >> > >> And be replaced by... DEFINE_SEMAPHORE? > > > >... or just go away entirely, depending if there are any users of it > >left after all mutexes have been converted to DEFINE_MUTEX()... > > Does that imply that struct semaphore be removed too? not per se > You can't do that. Exactly why not? Assuming there are zero users left in the kernel..... (which highly obviously is a prerequisite for even thinking about such a step) - 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/