On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:57:40PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > This will BREAK a lot of out-of-tree stuff if merged.
Well, bad luck for them. > The simplest way would be to NOT re-use the up()/down() symbols, > but rather to either keep them as-is (counting semaphores), > or delete them entirely (so that external code *knows* of the change). That I agree with actually. Keeping the semaphore interface as-is would simplify in-kernel transition a lot aswell and make it easier for people to get the API read. And the mutex symbols could get far more sensible names like mutex_lock, mutex_unlock and mutex_trylock..
