On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 21:32 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Why have the "MUTEX" part in there? Shouldn't that just be DECLARE_SEM > > (oops, I mean DEFINE_SEM). Especially that MUTEX_LOCKED! What is that? > > How does a MUTEX start off as locked. It can't, since a mutex must > > always have an owner (which, by the way, helped us in the -rt patch to > > find our "compat_semaphores"). So who's the owner of a > > DEFINE_SEM_MUTEX_LOCKED? > > No one. It's not really a mutex, but a completion. Well, then let us use a completion and not some semantically wrong workaround tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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