From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resent] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:37:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091111093724.4f40a48d@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AFAEF78.4080807@gmail.com>
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:08 -0500
William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I would rather see the text in Documentation/spinlocks give an explaination
> > as to why reader/writer locks are normally not desirable.
> >
> > The whole document needs work to make it a developer document, rather than
> > a historical mail thread.. A good document says what should be done today,
> > and does not have old junk or ask the reader to overly new context
> > on old information.
> >
> You wish me to merge our patches?
Sure, I am more concerned about document structure being readable than
preserving my sloppy prose.
> Or this is a second patch in a proposed series?
No. But taking more input from others (maybe Randy will help he is a good
editor) would get this back in shape.
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-10 19:55 [PATCH resent] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned William Allen Simpson
2009-11-10 21:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-11 2:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-11 17:08 ` William Allen Simpson
2009-11-11 17:37 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-11-12 11:06 ` [PATCH v2] " William Allen Simpson
2009-11-12 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-12 17:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-12 19:13 ` Stephen Clark
2009-11-12 23:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 8:59 ` Stefan Richter
2009-11-13 16:15 ` William Allen Simpson
2009-12-11 17:01 ` [PATCH v2] " William Allen Simpson
2009-12-11 21:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-12 10:36 ` William Allen Simpson
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