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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: lee.schermerhorn@hp.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.16-rc2-mm1 - repair-ipc-semaphore-comments-and-variables
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:50:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060213185019.539bd916.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139843280.5381.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> wrote:
>
> An apparent global find/replace of 'semphore' to 'mutex' in ipc/sem.c
>  modified several comments and variables that refer to the so called
>  "SysV IPC semphores".  The user interface objects remain "semaphores". 
>  The name of the file is still 'ipc/sem.c' This patch attempts to revert
>  just those comments and variables that refer to the "SysV IPC
>  semphores".

heh, yes, thanks.

The patch had significant wordwrapping - please fix that email client for
next time.

>  Note that several of these comments contain 10+ year old revision notes
>  that could possibly be removed at some time.

Sure, a comment review & revamp wouldn't hurt.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-14  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-13 15:08 Lee Schermerhorn
2006-02-14  2:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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