Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:44:02 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex |
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* 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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