Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760214AbYHZTOy (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:14:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758813AbYHZTOp (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:14:45 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:34629 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757160AbYHZTOo (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:14:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:13:35 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Daniel Walker Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Len Brown , Robert Moore , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] acpi: semaphore removal Message-ID: <20080826191335.GE23698@parisc-linux.org> References: <1219777186-4787-1-git-send-email-dwalker@mvista.com> <1219777186-4787-2-git-send-email-dwalker@mvista.com> <1219777186-4787-3-git-send-email-dwalker@mvista.com> <1219777186-4787-4-git-send-email-dwalker@mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1219777186-4787-4-git-send-email-dwalker@mvista.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 15 On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:59:49AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > The semaphore usage in ACPI is more like completions. The ASL Huh? They are semaphores. They're not 'more like completions' at all. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde 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/