From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992618AbXCGVVl (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:21:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992621AbXCGVVl (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:21:41 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:22786 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992619AbXCGVVj (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:21:39 -0500 Message-ID: <45EF2CD8.3050804@ru.mvista.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:21:28 +0300 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Tsutomu OWA , 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. References: <45EECE5C.6030100@ru.mvista.com> <17902.60669.945986.186995@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <45EEF6A4.9090807@ru.mvista.com> <17903.4302.502364.126701@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <17903.4302.502364.126701@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. Paul Mackerras wrote: >> 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. > OK, fair enough, but I still think the patch description was > inadequate. In the -rt context, I would at least expect to see some > explanation as to why those particular locks needed to be converted. I've floowed up to my patch with such explanation. In the context of an-rt patch itself, it was just too clear, hence I didn't go into explanations in the patch itself. :-) > Paul. WBR, Sergei