Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:06:39 -0500 (EST) | | From | Alan Stern <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core |
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Dave Young wrote:
> > Around a month ago I had a discussion with Peter Zijlstra about the > > problems in converting the device semaphores to mutexes; you may be > > able to find it in the LKML archives. Doing the conversion while > > keeping lockdep happy is a very hard problem and we were not able to > > solve it. > > > > It's unfortunate to know this, I will search and read your thread.
Here's a pointer to that thread:
http://marc.info/?t=119411942200002&r=1&w=2 Alan Stern
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