El Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:34:06AM -0800 Daniel Walker ha dit:

> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 11:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > The port_mutex is actually a semaphore, so easily converted to a 
> > > struct mutex.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > cool. How far away are we from being able to remove all the semaphore 
> > code? :-)
> 
> I wish my 7 patches made a dent, but it's hasn't done much. ;(
> 
> I would guess at least a week just to mop up the relatively easy ones..
> I've got 12 in my queue, and there still ~50 hopefully trivial ones
> still to be looked at.. Then another ~30 more difficult ones (that use
> init_MUTEX_LOCKED, or sema_init with 0 instead of 1) ..

I've also more patches of this type on my list, though i work in a
slower pace

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