Re: [Patch RFC 01/37] semaphore: Add DEFINE_SEMAPHORE,semaphore_init, semaphore_init_locked

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jul 27 2009 - 11:25:15 EST


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:04:49PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> Maybe you could introduce this _after_ you do the semaphore to
> completion cleanup .. This init_locked is just adding a bunch of code
> flux on top of that..

I agree. For these 36 patches we should first check if they can
be trivially converted to mutexes or completions and only change them
away to the semaphore named initializers.

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