From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751099AbWFXU5o (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:57:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751100AbWFXU5o (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:57:44 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:40362 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751099AbWFXU5n (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:57:43 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <449DA6F4.9070105@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:56:20 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-mm1 4/3] ieee1394: convert ieee1394_transactions from semaphores to waitqueue References: <449BEBFB.60302@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <200606230904.k5N94Al3005245@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <30866.1151072338@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <449D7A53.4080605@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1151172766.3181.75.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <449DA08A.10209@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <449DA08A.10209@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: (-0.72) AWL,BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I wrote: > It looks like fi->complete_sem is a actually a counting semaphore. It > could perhaps be replaced by a wait queue plus an atomic counter. ...which would be a semaphore. %-| -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- -==- ==--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/