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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <gregkh@...>, <kaos@...>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...>, <rolandd@...>, Brian S. Julin <bri@...>, Martin Diehl <info@...>, <mokuno@...>, <aacraid@...>, <mfasheh@...>, <wim@...>, <xfs@...>, <reiserfs-devel@...>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Replace down_trylock() with down_try(), reverse return values.
Date: Monday, May 5, 2008 - 1:58 am

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:56:35AM +0000, Rusty Russell wrote:

Given that people are actively trying to kill struct semaphore I don't
think doing a big search and rename is a good idea right now.

(And I also really hate the name down_try, but when it goes away that's
 rather void and we can spare the discussion)

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[PATCH 1/1] Replace down_trylock() with down_try(), reverse ..., Rusty Russell, (Sun May 4, 9:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/1] Replace down_trylock() with down_try(), reve..., Christoph Hellwig, (Mon May 5, 1:58 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/1] Replace down_trylock() with down_try(), reve..., Rusty Russell, (Mon May 5, 2:09 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/1] Replace down_trylock() with down_try(), reve..., Christoph Hellwig, (Mon May 5, 2:12 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/1] Replace down_trylock() with down_try(), reve..., Rusty Russell, (Mon May 5, 2:26 am)