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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:45:08 +0100
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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 09:33 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
>  >'struct compat_semaphore'
> 
> I really think this data type needs a better name,
> one that reflects what it does.
> 
> Something like 'struct binary_semaphore' or something.

see the thing is.. this is the counting one ;)
the -rt naming is just too confusing (but done to keep patch maintenance
reasonable, which is fair enough for that purpose, but not good enough
for kernel.org)