i'm perusing r. love's kernel book and comparing to the kernel source, and i noticed that love's book talks about creating and initializing a semaphore with: DECLARE_SEMAPHORE_GENERIC(name, count) the current kernel, however, has no such per-architecture macro. there, it's called __DECLARE_SEMAPHORE_GENERIC() instead. is that just a typo in love's book? or was that macro renamed at some point? and if that latter macro is supposed to be used, why the leading underscores in the name? it's kind of awkward, no? given that you can declare mutexes with one of: DECLARE_MUTEX(name); DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(name); i'm puzzled as to why there's no equally convenient macro for general semaphores. unless that "__DECLARE_..." macro *is* what you're supposed to use. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://www.fsdev.dreamhosters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
