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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > Why bother. As has already been discussed up and down are the natural > and normal names for counting semaphores. You don't need to obsolete the > old API thats just silly, you need to add a new one and wait for people > to use it. The vast majority of ups and downs are actually mutex related not semaphore related, so by majority share, up/down perhaps ought to be repurposed to mutexes: they _are_ the preeminent uses. From my modified tree, I see: semaphore up down down_in down_try Counting 41 59 1 0 Mutex 4405 2824 362 107 > The old API is still very useful for some applications that want > counting semaphores. Whilst that is true, they're in a small minority, and it'd be easier to change them. 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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