Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:41:52 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch] preempt-smp.patch, 2.6.9-rc1-bk14 |
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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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