Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750884AbVLORsn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:48:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750876AbVLORsn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:48:43 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:37286 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875AbVLORsm (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:48:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:48:07 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Howells cc: Paul Jackson , nikita@clusterfs.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, 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 In-Reply-To: <7140.1134667736@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20051215085602.c98f22ef.pj@sgi.com> <17313.37200.728099.873988@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <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> <4743.1134662116@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <7140.1134667736@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 946 Lines: 25 On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, David Howells wrote: > > FROM TO > ============================== ========================= > DECLARE_MUTEX DECLARE_SEM_MUTEX > DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED DECLARE_SEM_MUTEX_LOCKED > Proper counting semaphore DECLARE_SEM That sounds fine. I wouldn't be adverse to doing that - but it would have to be independently of any other changes, and it would need to simmer for a while for out-of-tree drivers etc to notice (ie you should _not_ just introduce a new "DECLARE_MUTEX()" immediately to confuse things). The patch could probably be fairly trivially generated with some trivial sed-script. Not that I'll take it at this point, but after the next release.. Linus - 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/