Re: [patch 00/62] sem2mutex: -V1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> On Friday 13 January 2006 14:44, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >     - it should stay a semaphore (if it's a genuine counting 
> >       semaphore)
> > 
> >     - or it should get converted to a completion (if it's used as
> >       a completion)
> > 
> >     - or it should get converted to struct work (if it's used as a 
> >       workflow synchronizer).
> 
> Could we get for each of these and a mutex:
> 
>  - description 
>  - common use case
>  - small argument why this and nothing else should be used there

like ... Documentation/mutex-design.txt?

	Ingo
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