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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:12:05 +0100
From: "Remy Bohmer" <linux@bohmer.net>
To: "Matthias Kaehlcke" <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>,
       "Daniel Walker" <dwalker@mvista.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@bohmer.net, jonathan@jonmasters.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex
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Hello Matthias,

Which do you have exactly on your list? (good to know, it prevents
double work...)

Remy

2007/12/6, Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>:
> El Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:34:06AM -0800 Daniel Walker ha dit:
>
> > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 11:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The port_mutex is actually a semaphore, so easily converted to a
> > > > struct mutex.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > >
> > > cool. How far away are we from being able to remove all the semaphore
> > > code? :-)
> >
> > I wish my 7 patches made a dent, but it's hasn't done much. ;(
> >
> > I would guess at least a week just to mop up the relatively easy ones..
> > I've got 12 in my queue, and there still ~50 hopefully trivial ones
> > still to be looked at.. Then another ~30 more difficult ones (that use
> > init_MUTEX_LOCKED, or sema_init with 0 instead of 1) ..
>
> I've also more patches of this type on my list, though i work in a
> slower pace
>
> --
> Matthias Kaehlcke
> Linux Application Developer
> Barcelona
>
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>                you'll become part of somebody else's plan
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