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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:53:56 +0200
From: Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/rcupdate.c: kill synchronize_kernel()
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Hi,

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:51:01AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> synchronize_kernel() is both deprecated and completely unused.
> 
> Let's kill this bloat.

Probably a good idea, but then it's not too useful to have
http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcu/HOWTO/descrip.html
still prominently mention it...

Andreas Mohr