Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, matthew@wil.cx,
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:19:30 +0100
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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 10:03 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > > even better than that, why not use the solution that we've implemented 
> > > for the -rt patchset, more than a year ago?
> > > 
> > > the solution i took was this:
> > > 
> > > - i did not touch the 'struct semaphore' namespace, but introduced a
> > >   'struct compat_semaphore'.
> > 
> > which I think is wrong. THis naming sucks. Sure doing a full sed on 
> > the tree is not pretty but it's also not THAT painful. And the pain of 
> > wrong names is something the kernel needs to carry around for years.
> 
> well, i'm all for renaming struct semaphore to struct mutex, but dont 
> the same arguments apply as to 'struct timer_list'?

don't think so; this is not a "lets do them one by one over the year",
this is a "do them all right now at once" move.

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