Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:15:04 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] unexport complete_all |
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote: > > Andrew, what is the policy for adding exports for out of tree GPL code? >
There isn't one. Such things cause way too much email.
What complete_all() does is to permit more than one task to wait on a completion and for all those tasks to be woken by a single complete(). Without it you'd need to record how many tasks are sleeping there and do complete() that many times.
So it's a sensible part of the completion API from a regularity-of-the-API POV. We use it in the coredump code and I don't think we'd be likely to want to rip it out.
In fact, I'd say that complete() should have always done it this way...
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