Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965003AbVLMPXv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:23:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965002AbVLMPXu (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:23:50 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:8344 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964999AbVLMPXt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:23:49 -0500 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1134482408.11732.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1134482408.11732.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1134479118.11732.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3874.1134480759@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> To: Alan Cox Cc: David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, arjan@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 X-Mailer: MH-E 7.84; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:23:34 +0000 Message-ID: <14796.1134487414@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 15 Alan Cox wrote: > Is there a reason you didnt answer the comment about down/up being the > usual way computing refers to the operations on counting semaphores but > just deleted it ? up/down is also used in conjunction with mutexes and R/W semaphores, so counting semaphores do not have exclusive rights to the terminology. David - 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/