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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:19:15 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched/wait_bit: Introduce
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:58:42AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > > > Argh, no no no.. That whole wait_for_atomic_t thing is a giant
> > > > trainwreck already and now you're making it worse still.
> 
> Your patch description needs to say why this isn't a trainwreck when you
> consider wait_for_atomic_t() to be one since it does things in a very similar
> way.

Yeah, still writing changelogs..