Re: [GIT pull] Preparatory patch for semaphore cleanup

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch just provides the DEFINE_SEMAPHORE macro which is required
> > for the various subsystem cleanups I sent out, so we can finally get
> > rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED] in 2.6.37.
> 
> Why is it called DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(), when two lines later the we have
> DECLARE_MUTEX()?

DECLARE_MUTEX is what we want to get rid of. 

It's a misnomer as the semaphores are not longer used as mutexes and
the instantiation of a variable is not the declaration.
 
> IOW, the whole DEFINE vs DECLARE thing seems confused. I'm not saying
> one is better than the other (maybe "define" is), but the mixing of
> names is worse than either, I feel..

That's a temporary situaton until all users are gone, which will be in
the 37 merge window.

Thanks,

	tglx
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