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

Alan Cox
2005-12-13T14:00:32Z

On Maw, 2005-12-13 at 13:32 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > Its then obvious what it does, you don't randomly break other drivers you've
> > not reviewed and the interface is intuitive rather than obfuscated.
>
> I've attempted to review everything in 2.6.15-rc5 outside of most of the archs.
> I can't easily modify any driver not contained in that tarball, but at least
> the compiler will barf and force a review.

Is there a reason you didnt answer the comment about down/up being the
usual way computing refers to the operations on counting semaphores but
just deleted it ?