Re: [PATCH 1/12]: MUTEX: Implement mutexes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> What's the reason not to just use DECLARE_SEM and DECLARE_SEM_LOCKED?

I still don't see the reason for _any_ of these changes.

There's one big reason to stay with what we have: it's always better to 
not make changes unnecessarily. That's a BIG reason. It's the _changes_ 
that need to have strong arguments for them as actually buying us 
something.

			Linus
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