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Remove mention of semaphores from kernel-locking
authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:20:41 +0000 (07:20 -0400)
committerMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:29:40 +0000 (08:29 -0400)
commit78305de2f99e9f43ab860dd95bb430b20e26c695
tree18bd576b2f6c9dd3f91ed40188fa13690cf311bftree | snapshot
parent338b9bb3adac0d2c5a1e180491d9b001d624c402commit | diff
Remove mention of semaphores from kernel-locking

Since the consensus seems to be to eliminate semaphores where possible,
we shouldn't be educating people about how to use them as locks.  Use
mutexes instead.  Semaphores should be described in a separate document
if we end up keeping them.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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