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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: to convert spinlocks to raw ones.
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:30:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EEF6A4.9090807@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17902.60669.945986.186995@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Hello.

Paul Mackerras wrote:

>>    I've already sent a patch fixing this one (along with many others) a month 
>>ago:

>>http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-February/031164.html

>>    I wonder iof it was ever considered... :-/

> The entire patch description was just this:

>>Convert the spinlocks in the PowerPC interrupt related code into the raw ones,
>>also convert the PURR and PMC related spinlocks...

> which says what you did, but gives NO CLUE about why this might be a
> good thing to do - what problem it fixes or what desirable outcome it
> produces.  I will not apply patches with inadequate descriptions.

    As I said, this was intended for the -rt patch, hence the question was for 
Ingo. I CC'ed the list just to keep people here in a loop.

> Paul.

WBR, Sergei

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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tsutomu OWA <tsutomu.owa@toshiba.co.jp>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: to convert spinlocks to raw ones.
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:30:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EEF6A4.9090807@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17902.60669.945986.186995@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Hello.

Paul Mackerras wrote:

>>    I've already sent a patch fixing this one (along with many others) a month 
>>ago:

>>http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-February/031164.html

>>    I wonder iof it was ever considered... :-/

> The entire patch description was just this:

>>Convert the spinlocks in the PowerPC interrupt related code into the raw ones,
>>also convert the PURR and PMC related spinlocks...

> which says what you did, but gives NO CLUE about why this might be a
> good thing to do - what problem it fixes or what desirable outcome it
> produces.  I will not apply patches with inadequate descriptions.

    As I said, this was intended for the -rt patch, hence the question was for 
Ingo. I CC'ed the list just to keep people here in a loop.

> Paul.

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-07 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-07  1:34 [patch 0/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: fix boot/runtime errors/warnings for PowerPC(ppc64) Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:34 ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:36 ` [patch 1/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: add preemption checks for NEED_RESCHED_DELAYED Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:36   ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-16 19:20   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-16 19:20     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-19  0:00     ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-19  0:00       ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:37 ` [patch 2/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: to convert spinlocks to raw ones Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:37   ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07 14:38   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 14:38     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 14:43     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-07 14:43       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-07 14:54       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 14:54         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 16:49     ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-07 16:49       ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-07 17:30       ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-03-07 17:30         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 19:21         ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-07 19:21           ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-07 21:21           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 21:21             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 21:30             ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-07 21:30               ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-08  0:43               ` Bill Huey
2007-03-08  0:43                 ` Bill Huey
2007-03-08  3:26                 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-08  3:26                   ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-08  4:00                   ` Bill Huey
2007-03-08  4:00                     ` Bill Huey
2007-03-07  1:39 ` [patch 3/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: fix a runtime warning for smp_processor_id() Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:39   ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:42 ` [RFC] [patch 4/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: fix a runtime warnings for xmon Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:42   ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  9:16   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07 10:10     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-07 10:10       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-07 10:54       ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07 10:54         ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07 11:06     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-07 11:06       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-07  1:45 ` [RFC] [patch 5/6] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: fix a boot error for handle_percpu_irq Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:45   ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07 21:29   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 21:29     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07  1:47 ` [patch 6/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: fix boot/runtime errors/warnings Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  1:47   ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07  9:13 ` [patch 0/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: fix boot/runtime errors/warnings for PowerPC(ppc64) Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07 14:26 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 14:26   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-08  2:28   ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-08  2:28     ` Tsutomu OWA

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