On 8/18/05, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:07:14AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > This patch renames sema_init to init_sema, init_MUTEX to init_mutex and
> > init_MUTEX_LOCKED to init_mutex_locked and at the same time creates 3
> > (deprecated) wrapper functions with the old names.
>
> What's the point? There's not need for totally gratious renaming.
>
I don't consider this "gratious renaming". I didn't do this just
because I could. I did it because the names used in the locking API
are quite inconsistent and not exactely pretty. I did it to make
things cleaner, neater, more consistent - to do everyone a favour.
Yes, it's just renaming of functions, it doesn't actually change any
behaviour, but why should we have to live with less-than-perfect
naming when we can clean it up?
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