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SubjectRe: [patch 00/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem
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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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