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

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:50 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> Nikita Danilov wrote:
> 
> > And to convert almost all calls to down/up to mutex_{down,up}. At which
> > point, it no longer makes sense to share the same data-type for
> > semaphore and mutex.
> 
> If we're going to call it a mutex, it would make sense to use familiar 
> terminology and call it lock/unlock rather than down/up.

ACK!

-- Steve

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