Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:38:19 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation |
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > They should be renamed to DEFINE_* while we're there. A "declaration" is > "this thing is defined somewhere else". A "definition" is "this thing is > defined here".
Yeah, I confuse the two. Although by now I've gotten so used to DECLARE_ that at least me personally I like it.
> > I wouldn't be adverse to doing that > > argh.
Heh. At least there's only 310 DECLARE_MUTEX* references in the whole kernel. So we're not actually talking about a huge patch.
It's also fairly simple to work with in out-of-tree drivers, since it's always bound to be a #define, so you can do things like
#ifndef DECLARE_SEM_MUTEX #define DECLARE_SEM_MUTEX(x) DECLARE_MUTEX(x) #endif
or something.
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