On 8/18/05, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:07:14AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > This patch renames sema_init to init_sema, init_MUTEX to init_mutex and > > init_MUTEX_LOCKED to init_mutex_locked and at the same time creates 3 > > (deprecated) wrapper functions with the old names. > > What's the point? There's not need for totally gratious renaming. > I don't consider this "gratious renaming". I didn't do this just because I could. I did it because the names used in the locking API are quite inconsistent and not exactely pretty. I did it to make things cleaner, neater, more consistent - to do everyone a favour.
Yes, it's just renaming of functions, it doesn't actually change any behaviour, but why should we have to live with less-than-perfect naming when we can clean it up? -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
