Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:44:02 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@bohmer.net,
       jonathan@jonmasters.org, matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex
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* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

> > 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. ;(

it's a beginning.

> 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) ..

With BKL removal being projected to happen between 5 and 10 years from 
now, i think you are moving at lightning's pace :-)

	Ingo
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