Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750809AbVLOQun (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:50:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750804AbVLOQum (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:50:42 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:64694 "EHLO zcars04e.ca.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750759AbVLOQum (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:50:42 -0500 Message-ID: <43A19EC4.5040505@nortel.com> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:50:12 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikita Danilov CC: Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , tglx@linutronix.de, dhowells@redhat.com, pj@sgi.com, mingo@elte.hu, hch@infradead.org, torvalds@osdl.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 References: <1134559121.25663.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <13820.1134558138@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20051213143147.d2a57fb3.pj@sgi.com> <20051213094053.33284360.pj@sgi.com> <20051212161944.3185a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20051213075441.GB6765@elte.hu> <20051213090219.GA27857@infradead.org> <20051213093949.GC26097@elte.hu> <20051213100015.GA32194@elte.hu> <6281.1134498864@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <14242.1134558772@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <16315.1134563707@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <1134568731.4275.4.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <43A0AD54.6050109@rtr.ca> <20051214155432.320f2950.akpm@osdl.org> <17313.29296.170999.539035@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1134658579.12421.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17313.37200.728099.873988@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <17313.37200.728099.873988@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Dec 2005 16:50:15.0311 (UTC) FILETIME=[9F6DF1F0:01C60197] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 568 Lines: 16 Nikita Danilov wrote: > And to convert almost all calls to down/up to mutex_{down,up}. At which > point, it no longer makes sense to share the same data-type for > semaphore and mutex. If we're going to call it a mutex, it would make sense to use familiar terminology and call it lock/unlock rather than down/up. Chris - 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/