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Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@...>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@...>, <chas@...>, <ecd@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
Date: Monday, April 23, 2007 - 4:17 am

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 07:50:36PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:

And the binary semaphore terminology i a little confusing. struct
semaphore is a full counting semaphore that is only used as a binary
semaphore if we want to speak in CS terms.  Than everyone else just
caled them semaphore before these patches started to show up :)

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[PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 dri..., Matthias Kaehlcke, (Sun Apr 22, 5:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Satyam Sharma, (Sun Apr 22, 7:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Kyle Moffett, (Sun Apr 22, 7:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Apr 23, 4:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Matthias Kaehlcke, (Mon Apr 23, 4:35 am)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Matthias Kaehlcke, (Mon Apr 23, 2:55 am)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Eddie C. Dost, (Mon Apr 23, 3:16 am)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Matthias Kaehlcke, (Mon Apr 23, 3:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Eddie C. Dost, (Mon Apr 23, 3:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Satyam Sharma, (Mon Apr 23, 4:02 am)
Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252..., Matthias Kaehlcke, (Mon Apr 23, 3:57 am)