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

Linus Torvalds
2005-12-15T17:48:07Z

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