Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755071AbYJ2VXT (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:23:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754234AbYJ2VXD (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:23:03 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58076 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754312AbYJ2VXB (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:23:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:22:57 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Marcin Slusarz Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Matthew Wilcox , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename DECLARE_MUTEX to DEFINE_SEMAPHORE Message-ID: <20081029212257.GA32598@infradead.org> References: <20081026120609.GA10728@joi> <20081026164118.GA19812@infradead.org> <20081029210149.GA6820@joi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081029210149.GA6820@joi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 13 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:16:29PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > Changing the name of DECLARE_MUTEX (to something which tells us what it really > does) will increase visibility of semaphore uses, don't you think? > And more visibility means more patches removing its uses. What it primarily would is cause change churn. Really, if you want to do something useful try getting rid of it instead. -- 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/