Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - fix mconf | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:57:15 +0200 |
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> Well actually when struct mutex went in we decided to remove all > non-counting uses of semaphores kernel-wide, migrating them to mutexes. > Then to remove all the arch-specific semaphore implementations and > implement an arch-neutral version. After that has been done would be an > appropriate time to rename things. > > But it never happened. See "fine intentions", above ;)
it's still in progress ;) even in 2.6.18-rc there are semaphore to mutex conversions.... the remaining ones are increasingly tricky though so speed is slowing down
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