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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: joe.korty@ccur.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robustmutexes@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:01:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050412190138.06a2021f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050412152318.GA2714@tsunami.ccur.com>

Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> wrote:
>
>   This patch adds EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE to all
>  architectures.  Though there is nothing in the kernel
>  that uses them yet, I know of two patches in development,
>  one by Intel and the other by Bull, that adds robust mutex
>  support to pthread_mutex*.

We normally have objections to reserving parts of the name/number space for
external patches, but I think robust mutexes are sufficiently popular and
important to justify us making your lives easier.

Could you please reissue the patch, only add

/* For robust mutexes */

in the appropriate places?  Otherwise someone will come in and try to clean
it up again.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-13  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-12 15:23 Joe Korty
2005-04-13  2:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-04-13 14:14   ` [PATCH] add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE version 2 Joe Korty

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