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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc fix - brlock was removed in the 3.13 kernel series
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:42:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <549C2256.5010704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1419506981-23952-1-git-send-email-der.herr@hofr.at>

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On 12/25/2014 06:29 AM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> The brlock was completely removed in the 3.13 kernel series. see
> commit 0f6ed63b1707 ("no need to keep brlock macros anymore...")
> 
> It seems that documentation in seqlock.h was not updated to
> reflect this. This patch drops the (hopefully last) false brlock
> reference. All remaining references to brlock refer to byte-range
> locks (notably in cifs) and not to "Big Reader Lock" and should be
> correct.
> 
> patch is against 3.19.0-rc1 linux-next
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-25 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-25 11:29 [PATCH] doc fix - brlock was removed in the 3.13 kernel series Nicholas Mc Guire
2014-12-25 14:42 ` Rik van Riel [this message]

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