Re: [PATCH RESEND] vgacon: remember scrollback buffer on consoleswitch

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:43:01 +0200 Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> PS: why DECLARE_MUTEX _defines_ _semaphore_?

The kernel gets definition-vs-declaration confused in several places.

> there are only 8 uses of this
> macro so it's not a big problem to rename it to e.g. DEFINE_SEMAPHORE (I can
> provide a patch)

I'd say that s/declare/define/ at such a late stage in the semaphore's
lifetime would be of dubious value.  But getting "MUTEX" out of that
macro's name would be a very good thing - it's a bad overlap with struct
mutex.  Send patch :)


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