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From: "Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy" <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Rename _bh to _softirq
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At 05:57 AM 10/15/2002 +0400, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
>Hello!
>
> >         But yes, i agree, and there are a number of other
> > renames that would make perfect sense.
>
>Oh, do you dislike names with history? I love them. :-)
>Well, bh is short, looks nice and cryptic enough.
>
>After true BHs have gone, just say that "bh" is alias for "softirq".
Sure. Just like I said we can keep compatibility defines
         #define local_bh_disable local_softirq_disable

But primary interface should be changed IMO.

Max


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