On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:58:43AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ugh. I think the concept is fine, but can we place make these enum's > be all upper case or something to make them really stand out visually.
OK. > The other choice would be to just make the choices be negative (== > recursive), zero (== failed) or positive (== got lock), which allows > for the same value re-use for the non-recursive case, and you could > avoid the enum entirely. I thought about that, but liked the enum better for having to then spell it out. I'll go make the enum shout and add comment as you suggest.
