Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 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 ... And abused/misused... > 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 I hope you're talking about trees... David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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