Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] v2.5.22 - add wait queue function callback support | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 17 Jun 2002 14:12:20 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 13:57, Bob Miller wrote:
> 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.
Work has gone in since this.
During 2.5.20, Linus asked for and I submitted a patch to remove the whole wq_lock_t mess altogether. It was merged into 2.5.21. Subsequently, there is no wq_lock_t abstraction in current 2.5 kernels and code should use a standard spinlock.
Robert Love
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