From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932453AbWG3T5W (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:57:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932468AbWG3T5V (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:57:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:6813 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932453AbWG3T5V (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:57:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - fix mconf From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jesper Juhl , pj@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060730125115.d9f9d625.akpm@osdl.org> References: <200607301830.01659.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> <200607301835.35053.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> <20060730113416.7c1d8f80.pj@sgi.com> <9a8748490607301148q13992d9cr910a1dadb42e11fd@mail.gmail.com> <20060730120631.9ee1ab09.akpm@osdl.org> <9a8748490607301217g1edad85dre8a45457c57bee35@mail.gmail.com> <20060730125115.d9f9d625.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:57:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1154289436.2941.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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 -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com