> 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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