Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:53:30 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:50 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > And to convert almost all calls to down/up to mutex_{down,up}. At which > > point, it no longer makes sense to share the same data-type for > > semaphore and mutex. > > If we're going to call it a mutex, it would make sense to use familiar > terminology and call it lock/unlock rather than down/up.
ACK!
-- Steve
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