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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:58:07 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] Clean up smp_mb__ barriers
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:55:05AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> 
> Shouldn't the mass-conversion patch (patch 31) go first?

You mean; make the kernel use primitives that aren't there yet?