Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933028AbYBMTJY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:09:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755805AbYBMTJJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:09:09 -0500 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:54586 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753268AbYBMTJI (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:09:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adaptec AACRAID: convert fibctx->wait_sem to completion From: James Bottomley To: Matthias Kaehlcke Cc: aacraid@adaptec.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20080213183444.GA27068@traven> References: <20080213183444.GA27068@traven> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:09:00 -0600 Message-Id: <1202929740.3109.79.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 577 Lines: 15 On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 19:34 +0100, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > Adaptec AACRAID driver: The semaphore fibctx->wait_sem is used for > signalling an event. Convert it to a completion. What's the purpose of doing this? The aacraid implementation seems to be a classic PV semaphore, so why does it need to become a completion? James -- 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/