From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965582AbXCGQz5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:55:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965584AbXCGQz5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:55:57 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:41871 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965582AbXCGQz4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:55:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17902.60669.945986.186995@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 03:49:01 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Sergei Shtylyov 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. In-Reply-To: <45EECE5C.6030100@ru.mvista.com> References: <45EECE5C.6030100@ru.mvista.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.