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

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Linus wrote:
> Hint: we have DECLARE_MUTEX exactly because it's also DOCUMENTATION that 
> we use a semaphore as a pure binary mutex. Not because we need it.

That's insane ... 

This is stealth documentation at its finest.  Who besides Linus even
knew that's what this spelling of the DECLARE macro was telling us?

  Paul "Hand me that chain saw, Billy Jo.  This limb is coming -down-" Jackson

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