Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:58:11 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] updates XFS mutex patch |
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> It's say just switch XFS to the one-arg mutex_init variant. > > And ingo. please add the mutex_t typedef, analogue to spinlock_t it's > a totally opaqueue to the users type, so it really should be a > typedef. After that the XFS mutex.h can just go away.
that's not possible, due to DEFINE_MUTEX() and due to struct mutex being embedded in other structures. I dont think we want to lose that property of struct semaphore, and only restrict mutex usage to pointers.
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