From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750875AbWBNCvQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:51:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750927AbWBNCvQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:51:16 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:52616 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875AbWBNCvP (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:51:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:50:19 -0800 From: Andrew Morton 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 Message-Id: <20060213185019.539bd916.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1139843280.5381.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1139843280.5381.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Schermerhorn 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.