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

[Linus Torvalds]

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. I wouldn't be adverse to doing that - but it would have 
to be independently of any other changes, and it would need to simmer for 
a while for out-of-tree drivers etc to notice (ie you should _not_ just 
introduce a new "DECLARE_MUTEX()" immediately to confuse things).

The patch could probably be fairly trivially generated with some trivial 
sed-script. Not that I'll take it at this point, but after the next 
release..

		Linus
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