From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org,
Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 1/3] Add sem_getcount() to arches that lack it
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:10:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52fyz2938t.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050310205503.6151ab83.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:55:03 -0800")
Andrew> (Why do they want to do this anyway?)
Neither use seems really fundamental. The XFS use is explicitly
inside #ifdef DEBUG and seems to be used only for assertions.
ieee1394 is just sticking the value in a read-only sysfs attribute.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-11 0:06 [PATCH, RFC 1/3] Add sem_getcount() to arches that lack it Jody McIntyre
2005-03-11 0:08 ` [PATCH, RFC 2/3] Use sem_getcount in ieee1394 Jody McIntyre
2005-03-11 0:10 ` [PATCH, RFC 3/3] Use sem_getcount in xfs Jody McIntyre
2005-03-11 4:55 ` [PATCH, RFC 1/3] Add sem_getcount() to arches that lack it Andrew Morton
2005-03-11 5:10 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-03-11 5:18 ` Nathan Scott
2005-03-11 5:31 ` Jody McIntyre
2005-03-11 5:56 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-11 12:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-11 17:04 ` Jody McIntyre
2005-03-16 19:27 ` [PATCH, RFC 1/4] Rename semaphore count variable to be arch specific Jody McIntyre
2005-03-16 19:28 ` [PATCH, RFC 2/4] Add sem_getcount on arches that lack it Jody McIntyre
2005-03-16 19:28 ` [PATCH, RFC 3/4] Use sem_getcount in XFS Jody McIntyre
2005-03-16 19:31 ` [PATCH, RFC 4/4] Use sem_getcount in ieee1394 Jody McIntyre
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