| Date | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:57:40 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation |
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> (5) Redirects the following to apply to the new mutexes rather than the > traditional semaphores: > > down() > down_trylock() > down_interruptible() > up()
This will BREAK a lot of out-of-tree stuff if merged.
So please figure out some way to hang a HUGE banner out there so that the external codebases know they need updating.
The simplest way would be to NOT re-use the up()/down() symbols, but rather to either keep them as-is (counting semaphores), or delete them entirely (so that external code *knows* of the change).
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