On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 23:45 +0000, David Howells wrote: > (1) Provides a simple xchg() based semaphore as a default for all > architectures that don't wish to override it and provide their own. > > Overriding is possible by setting CONFIG_ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_MUTEX and > supplying asm/mutex.h > > Partial overriding is possible by #defining mutex_grab(), mutex_release() > and is_mutex_locked() to perform the appropriate optimised functions.
Your code is really similar to the RT mutex, which does everything that your mutex does at least ? Assuming you've reviewed the RT mutex, why would we want to use yours over it? Daniel
