Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 2008 01:58:23 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Replace down_trylock() with down_try(), reverse return values. |
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On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:56:35AM +0000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > down_trylock() returns 1 on failure, 0 on success. This differs from > spin_trylock(), mutex_trylock() and common sense. Or as ocfs2 put it > "kernel 1, world 0". > > Rename it to down_try() (which makes more sense anyway), and reverse > it. Fortunately there aren't a huge number of callers left. > > I took the liberty of reversing the sense of usb_trylock_device() > without renaming it: it's only used in one place anyway.
Given that people are actively trying to kill struct semaphore I don't think doing a big search and rename is a good idea right now.
(And I also really hate the name down_try, but when it goes away that's rather void and we can spare the discussion)
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