From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
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: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 03:49:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17902.60669.945986.186995@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45EECE5C.6030100@ru.mvista.com>
Sergei Shtylyov writes:
> 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.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-07 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ 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 1:36 ` [patch 1/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: add preemption checks for NEED_RESCHED_DELAYED Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-16 19:20 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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 14:38 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 14:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-07 14:54 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 16:49 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2007-03-07 17:30 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 19:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-07 21:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07 21:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-08 0:43 ` Bill Huey
2007-03-08 3:26 ` Paul Mackerras
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 1:42 ` [RFC] [patch 4/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: fix a runtime warnings for xmon Tsutomu OWA
2007-03-07 9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-07 10:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-07 10:54 ` Tsutomu OWA
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 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 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
2007-03-08 2:28 ` Tsutomu OWA
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