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

Steven Rostedt
2005-12-15T14:41:30Z

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:54 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Leaving up()/down() as-is is really the most sensible option.
> >
>
> Absolutely.
>
> I must say that my interest in this stuff is down in
> needs-an-electron-microscope-to-locate territory. down() and up() work
> just fine and they're small, efficient, well-debugged and well-understood.
> We need a damn good reason for taking on tree-wide churn or incompatible
> renames or addition of risk. What's the damn good reason here?
>

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-- Steve