linux-kernel - Re: [Patch RFC 20/37] cifs: convert semaphore to mutex

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Message-ID: <20090730210946.GA14722@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:09:46 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch RFC 20/37] cifs: convert semaphore to mutex

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:18:39AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> -	struct semaphore sesSem;
> +	struct mutex sesSem;

If we touch every user of this anyway any chance we could give it a sane
name, e.g. session_mutex?

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