Re: [patch 15/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem, arch-semaphores.patch

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:40:43AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> mark all semaphores that are known to be used in a non-mutex fashion, as 
> arch_semaphores. This has relevance for the CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEX_FULL 
> debugging kernel: these semaphores will never be changed to mutexes, not 
> even for debugging purposes.

NACK.  Just keep these as struct semaphore.  Maybe one day we can do a simple
machine-independ semaphore implementation for the few cases remaining, but
this renaming is just rather silly.

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