Re: [PATCH /3] sh64: remove cli()/sti() from arch/sh64/*

[Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:22:47PM -0600, James Nelson wrote:
> This series of patches is to remove the last cli()/sti() function calls in arch/sh64.

Wait a minute.  Is that just a blanket search-and-replace job?  There is
a reason why cli/sti is marked obsolete instead of being silently #define'd
that way.  Namely, in a lot of cases users of cli/sti are actually racy.

For such instances replacing these with local_... would not improve anything
(obviously) *and* would hide a trouble spot by silencing a warning.

I'm not familiar with the architectures in question, so it might very well
be that all replacements so far had been correct.  However, I would really
like to see rationale for each of those warning removals to go along with
the patches.

Note that basically you are doing "remove the warning in foo.c:42 and
keep the current behaviour".  The missing part is "current behaviour is,
in fact, correct in that place and does not deserve a warning because
<list of reasons>".