From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751339AbWDKPLz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:11:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751352AbWDKPLz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:11:55 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:63978 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751339AbWDKPLy (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:11:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:12:18 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Andreas Mohr Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/rcupdate.c: kill synchronize_kernel() Message-ID: <20060411151218.GB1295@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@us.ibm.com References: <20060411035100.GD3190@stusta.de> <20060411145355.GA3373@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060411145355.GA3373@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:53:56PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote: > 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... My May 1st patches will update the documentation files as well, also the -rt tree. Please let me take care of this. Thanx, Paul