From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Bob Miller <rem@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] v2.5.22 - add wait queue function callback support
Date: 17 Jun 2002 14:12:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024348340.922.124.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020617135744.A24347@doc.pdx.osdl.net>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-17 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-17 20:14 [patch] v2.5.22 - add wait queue function callback support Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-17 20:28 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-17 20:53 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-17 21:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-17 22:09 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-17 22:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-17 20:57 ` Bob Miller
2002-06-17 21:08 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-17 21:23 ` Bob Miller
2002-06-17 21:12 ` Robert Love [this message]
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