Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:09:56 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 25/26] tile: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions |
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 05:06:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Paul E. McKenney > <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics, > > and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock > > pair. This commit therefore removes the underlying arch-specific > > arch_spin_unlock_wait(). > > Please don't make this one commit fopr every architecture. > > Once something gets removed, it gets removed. There's no point in > "remove it from architecture X". If there are no more users, we're > done with it, and making it be 25 patches with the same commit message > instead of just one doesn't help anybody.
Apologies, I will merge them.
Thanx, Paul
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