Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 00/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:36:16 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 19:21 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >>If we agree mutex is a good idea at all (and I think it is), then > >>wouldn't it be better to aim for a wholesale conversion rather than > >>"if people want to"? > > > > > > well most of this will "only" take a few kernel releases ;-) > > > > OK, so in my mind that is aiming for a wholesale conversion. And > yes I would expect the semaphore to stay around for a while... > > But I thought Linus phrased it as though mutex should be made > available and no large scale conversions.
it's one at a time. Manual inspection etc etc and I don't expect 99% coverage, but the important 50% after 6 months or so...
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