From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait()
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:04:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211389499.18130.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805211756.04731.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 17:56 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] Introduce down_try()
>
> I planned on removing the much-disliked down_trylock() (with its
> backwards return codes) in 2.6.27, but it's creating something of a
> logjam with other patches in -mm and linux-next.
>
> Andrew suggested introducing "down_try" as a wrapper now, to make
> the transition easier.
I must be missing something critical, but what's the logjam this is
causing?
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 6:00 [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait() Rusty Russell
2008-05-21 6:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 7:56 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-21 17:04 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2008-05-22 8:56 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-22 15:48 ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-23 0:52 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-21 8:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 8:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 12:09 ` Rusty Russell
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