Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750864AbVLOTWP (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:22:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750857AbVLOTWP (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:22:15 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:44228 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750843AbVLOTWO (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:22:14 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:21:15 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, pj@sgi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, 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 Message-Id: <20051215112115.7c4bfbea.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20051215085602.c98f22ef.pj@sgi.com> <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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 24 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. They should be renamed to DEFINE_* while we're there. A "declaration" is "this thing is defined somewhere else". A "definition" is "this thing is defined here". > I wouldn't be adverse to doing that argh. - 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/