El Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:09:00PM -0600 James Bottomley ha dit:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 19:34 +0100, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > Adaptec AACRAID driver: The semaphore fibctx->wait_sem is used for
> > signalling an event. Convert it to a completion.
>
> What's the purpose of doing this? The aacraid implementation seems to
> be a classic PV semaphore, so why does it need to become a completion?
i had another look at the code and i agree with you. i didn't realize that
the semaphore is used as counting semaphore
please redirect the patch to /dev/null
thanks for reviewing the patch and pointing out my mistake
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