Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754026AbYJZNjW (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753588AbYJZNi7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:38:59 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:34827 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755165AbYJZNi6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:38:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename DECLARE_MUTEX to DEFINE_SEMAPHORE From: Peter Zijlstra To: Marcin Slusarz Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Matthew Wilcox , LKML In-Reply-To: <20081026120609.GA10728@joi> References: <20081026120609.GA10728@joi> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:39:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1225028346.32713.11.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 538 Lines: 12 On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 13:06 +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > DECLARE_MUTEX is doubly misleading name (it actually _defines_ struct > _semaphore_ initialized to 1) and it can be confused with DEFINE_MUTEX > (which defines real struct mutex). Rename it. I'd prefer DEFINE_BINARY_SEM or somesuch -- 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/