[Ksummit-2008-discuss] topic proposal

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:22:08PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:05:52PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:39:10PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > Semaphores do we keep them or do we remove them?
> > > 
> > > I've had enough semaphore removal patches accepted that I think it's
> > > already been decided .. However, it would seem at least Andi and Matthew
> > > don't completely agree .. Which makes me wonder if there's other pockets
> > > of people that either don't know about this, or have specific objections
> > > to it..
> > 
> > Aren't there still a few places in the kernel that want a "counting
> > mutex" that the semaphore code provides?  How is that going to be
> > converted using mutexes?
> 
> Daniel thinks they all have "completion semantics".  Which they don't.

Ok then, that was a simple answer, semaphores stay :)

thanks,

greg k-h