On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:57:40PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> This will BREAK a lot of out-of-tree stuff if merged.
Well, bad luck for them.
> The simplest way would be to NOT re-use the up()/down() symbols,
> but rather to either keep them as-is (counting semaphores),
> or delete them entirely (so that external code *knows* of the change).
That I agree with actually. Keeping the semaphore interface as-is
would simplify in-kernel transition a lot aswell and make it easier for
people to get the API read. And the mutex symbols could get far more sensible
names like mutex_lock, mutex_unlock and mutex_trylock..
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