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On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:38:37AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> introduce the mutex_debug type, and switch the semaphore APIs to it in a 
> type-sensitive way. Plain semaphores will still use the proper 
> arch-semaphore calls.

I think we shouldn't introduce this one.  It just encourages people to do
really things.  Everything else in the patchseries looks sensible to me.