From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750819AbVLORR6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:17:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750817AbVLORR6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:17:58 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:52620 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812AbVLORR5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:17:57 -0500 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20051215090951.9276697c.pj@sgi.com> References: <20051215090951.9276697c.pj@sgi.com> <17313.37200.728099.873988@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1134559121.25663.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <13820.1134558138@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20051213143147.d2a57fb3.pj@sgi.com> <20051213094053.33284360.pj@sgi.com> <20051212161944.3185a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20051213075441.GB6765@elte.hu> <20051213090219.GA27857@infradead.org> <20051213093949.GC26097@elte.hu> <20051213100015.GA32194@elte.hu> <6281.1134498864@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <14242.1134558772@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <16315.1134563707@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <1134568731.4275.4.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <43A0AD54.6050109@rtr.ca> <20051214155432.320f2950.akpm@osdl.org> <17313.29296.170999.539035@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1134658579.12421.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4743.1134662116@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> To: Paul Jackson Cc: Linus Torvalds , dhowells@redhat.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, hch@infradead.org, arjan@infradead.org, matthew@wil.cx, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation X-Mailer: MH-E 7.84; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:17:30 +0000 Message-ID: <6880.1134667050@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Jackson wrote: > > Hint: we have DECLARE_MUTEX exactly because it's also DOCUMENTATION that > > we use a semaphore as a pure binary mutex. Not because we need it. > > That's insane ... And abused/misused... > This is stealth documentation at its finest. Who besides Linus even > knew that's what this spelling of the DECLARE macro was telling us? > > Paul "Hand me that chain saw, Billy Jo. This limb is coming -down-" Jackson I hope you're talking about trees... David