Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 04:04:07 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [LART] pc_keyb.c changes |
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Could the person who switched from BKL to spin_lock_irqsave() in > pc_keyb.c please share whatever the hell he had been smoking? Free clue: > disabling interrupts for long intervals to improve scalability is right up > there with fighting for peace and fucking for virginity. > > Linus, could we please revert that crap and feed the authors to > Larry? If they are religious about Scalability At Any Cost, Common Sense > Be Damned(tm) - let's give them a chance to become martyrs...
BTW, while we are at it, one is _not_ supposed to do inclusion to/removal from single-linked list without any exclusion whatsoever. Example: drivers/input/evdev.c::evdev_{open,release}(). Or drivers/input/joydev.c and drivers/input/mousedev.c, for that matter. Sigh...
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