Arjan van de Ven wrote:
If we agree mutex is a good idea at all (and I think it is), then
wouldn't it be better to aim for a wholesale conversion rather than
"if people want to"?
well most of this will "only" take a few kernel releases ;-)
OK, so in my mind that is aiming for a wholesale conversion. And
yes I would expect the semaphore to stay around for a while...
But I thought Linus phrased it as though mutex should be made
available and no large scale conversions.
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