Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:01:54 +0100 | | From | "Remy Bohmer" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex |
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Daniel,
FYI: I am working on the conversion of the 2 sem->mutex in kernel/printk.c
Remy
2007/12/6, Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>: > 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) .. > > Daniel > >
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