From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frederik Deweerdt Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:45:18 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] removing R/W semaphore content from standard semaphore.h Message-Id: <20070217213142.GD32060@slug> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:23:25PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:10:19 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > if someone could clarify this, i'd appreciate it. i recently > > > submitted a patch that removed any inclusions of "linux/rwsem.h" > > > from the semaphore.h files, since standard semaphore header files > > > should *not* be pulling in any R/W sem stuff -- the R/W semaphores > > > now have their own rwsem.h header file. > > > > My turn for a question: when you make such a change that affects > > many $ARCH (arch/*), do you build multiple architectures to see if > > the patch causes any problems? > > no, since i have access only to an x86 platform. In case you'd want to cross-compile, eldk (http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK) has some pre-built toolchains for x86 to arm, mips and ppc. Regards, Frederik _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors