Re: [PATCH][2.5] convert atm_dev_lock from spinlock to semaphore

From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 21:53:47 EST


you seem to be under the impression that <linux/sem.h> has something
to do with linux semaphores. this is not the case; they're sysv semaphores.

apart from this, i think it's a pretty bad idea to just replace the
spinlocks with semaphores. atm really needs fixing properly.

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