re: New manpage: locking(9)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 03:18:48AM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> > 
> > I see no reason to capitulate and drop the original naming, refreshed
> > for the current kernel design in favor of some invented linuxism.
> 
> You're going to cause massive confusion if you write documentation
> intended for kernel beginners that uses the terms "top half" and
> "bottom half" to mean something different than Linux means.  Like it or
> not, the Linux use of these terms is the prevalent one and has been for
> a decade or more.

this is not my experience -- but this only makes me conclude that
we should avoid using these terms entirely and use other ones that
are either self-describing or something we can easily declare a
definition of that doesn't conflict with others.  define a set of
properties in a context-type (can block, can be preempted, etc.)
and then define the various contexts upon these.


.mrg.