Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

[Andrew Morton]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> 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.
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