Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:08:32 +0200 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [patch] v2.5.22 - add wait queue function callback support |
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:57:44PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > > I thought we killed off wq_write_lock_irqsave 1-2 kernels ago ? > It depends on what you mean by killed off. I submitted a patch to Linus back > at 2.5.3 to clean up the way the completion code called the wait queue > interface. This interface got added then. You picked up those changes at > that time (and still have them in your kernel tree) but the changes have > never made it into Linus' tree. > > So, Linus has never had the code to 'kill' and you've never dropped it > after picking it up.
Your patch was to use wq_write_lock and friends in sched.c iirc. That change is now removed from my tree (though I've not put up a version containing that change yet).
Since 2.5.20 or so, the wq_write_lock functions are dead as in gone. Not around, Extinct. They are ex-functions.
Dave
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