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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex

* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

> > 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. ;(

it's a beginning.

> 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) ..

With BKL removal being projected to happen between 5 and 10 years from
now, i think you are moving at lightning's pace :-)

Ingo


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