Re: [GIT pull] Preparatory patch for semaphore cleanup

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch just provides the DEFINE_SEMAPHORE macro which is required
> for the various subsystem cleanups I sent out, so we can finally get
> rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED] in 2.6.37.

Why is it called DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(), when two lines later the we have
DECLARE_MUTEX()?

IOW, the whole DEFINE vs DECLARE thing seems confused. I'm not saying
one is better than the other (maybe "define" is), but the mixing of
names is worse than either, I feel..

                     Linus
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