Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964834AbVLMJJU (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:09:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964822AbVLMJJU (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:09:20 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:4487 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964831AbVLMJJS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:09:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:09:17 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, matthew@wil.cx, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation Message-ID: <20051213090917.GC15804@wotan.suse.de> References: <20051212161944.3185a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20051213075441.GB6765@elte.hu> <1134460804.2866.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051213090349.GE10088@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051213090349.GE10088@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 15 > it's not _that_ bad, if done overnight. It does not touch any of the > down/up APIs. Touching those would create a monster patch and monster > impact. One argument for a full rename (and abandoning the old "struct semaphore" name completely) would be that it would offer a clean break for out tree code, no silent breakage. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/