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SubjectRe: [patch] preempt-smp.patch, 2.6.9-rc1-bk14
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:44:46PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > > NOTE to architecture maintainers: generic_raw_read_trylock() is a crude
> > > version that should be replaced with the proper arch-optimized version
> > > ASAP.
> >
> > I'd suggest not providing it at all then, because that forces arch
> > maintainers to implement it.
>
> while generic it's actually correct for the purpose it's being used for
> right now and all architectures should thus compile & work fine.

Well, if it goes into -mm I'd rather see it not commpile first and let
arch maintainers do proper version instead of forgetting it. And
unless I misread the code it's only used for SMP && PREEMPT anyway, right?

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