Re: [PATCH 00/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - The initial step

I think it's a good thing that we have to take a little more care when
choosing global function and variable names... Take up() for example -
in my (very humble) oppinion that is a very bad name for a global
function - it clashes too easily with local function and variable
names, and a programmer who's not careful may end up calling the
global up() when he wants the local and vice versa (a much better name
would have been sem_up() - should we change that???).

(authors of (yet) off-tree things would hate us)

Mark up() as deprecated while sem_up() emerges - hey, we even have an
__attribute__(()) for that..


Jan Engelhardt
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