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.
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2006-02-13 15:08 Lee Schermerhorn
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