On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 10:03 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > even better than that, why not use the solution that we've implemented > > > for the -rt patchset, more than a year ago? > > > > > > the solution i took was this: > > > > > > - i did not touch the 'struct semaphore' namespace, but introduced a > > > 'struct compat_semaphore'. > > > > which I think is wrong. THis naming sucks. Sure doing a full sed on > > the tree is not pretty but it's also not THAT painful. And the pain of > > wrong names is something the kernel needs to carry around for years. > > well, i'm all for renaming struct semaphore to struct mutex, but dont > the same arguments apply as to 'struct timer_list'?
don't think so; this is not a "lets do them one by one over the year", this is a "do them all right now at once" move.
