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Date:      Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:23:08 +0300
From:      Cristian KLEIN <cristi@net.utcluj.ro>
To:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] OsdSynch.c modernization
Message-ID:  <46F041BC.6070604@net.utcluj.ro>
In-Reply-To: <200709181516.11207.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200709181516.11207.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> I have rewritten sys/dev/acpica/Osd/OsdSynch.c to match the modern 
> ACPI-CA and -CURRENT:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica/OsdSynch.diff
> 
> Major changes are:
> 
> 1. Semaphore is reimplemented with convar(9) instead of mutex(9).
> 
> 2. Semaphore with ACPI_WAIT_FOREVER option actually waits forever now.
> 
> 3. Obsolete and/or hidden debugging knobs and macros are removed.
> 
> 4. ACPI-CA introduced AcpiOs*Mutex() to complement AcpiOs*Semaphore():
> 
> 	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6634
> 
>    These functions are implemented and turned on by default.
> 
> 5. Spinlock is reimplemented with sx lock and more closely implements 
> the intended behaviour (e.g., save/restore interrupts).
> 
> It is orthogonal to Nate's effort of rewriting acpi_ec.c but I'd like 
> get more feedback *with* his last patch (revision D) because his 
> patch will be committed sooner or later. ;-)
> 
> Please test/review and let us know if there is any regression or not.

Sorry for not being able to test the patch. May I assume this will fix:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114113
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114649



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