Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Rename DECLARE_MUTEX to DEFINE_SEMAPHORE | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:41:03 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 15:11 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 13:06 +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > >> DECLARE_MUTEX is doubly misleading name (it actually _defines_ struct > >> _semaphore_ initialized to 1) and it can be confused with DEFINE_MUTEX > >> (which defines real struct mutex). Rename it. > > > > I'd prefer DEFINE_BINARY_SEM or somesuch > > > But it is not a binary semaphore, or is it?
> #define DECLARE_MUTEX(name) __DECLARE_SEMAPHORE_GENERIC(name,1)
I thought that 1 made it a binary sem.
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