Re: [PATCH 4/4] acpi: semaphore removal

[Daniel Walker]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:13 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:59:49AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > The semaphore usage in ACPI is more like completions. The ASL
> 
> Huh?  They are semaphores.  They're not 'more like completions' at all.

You can clearly make a completion out of a semaphore, but we have a
completion API .. ACPI is using locked semaphores, and essentially
re-making completions with the semaphore API..

Daniel

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