From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename DECLARE_MUTEX to DEFINE_SEMAPHORE
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:22:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029212257.GA32598@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081029210149.GA6820@joi>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:16:29PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> Changing the name of DECLARE_MUTEX (to something which tells us what it really
> does) will increase visibility of semaphore uses, don't you think?
> And more visibility means more patches removing its uses.
What it primarily would is cause change churn. Really, if you want to
do something useful try getting rid of it instead.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-26 12:06 [PATCH] Rename DECLARE_MUTEX to DEFINE_SEMAPHORE Marcin Slusarz
2008-10-26 13:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-26 14:11 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-10-26 14:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-26 15:20 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-10-26 15:23 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-10-26 16:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-29 21:16 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-10-29 21:22 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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