From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock()
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:33:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808031031380.3668@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808031833.32048.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> I love your suggestion tho. Oh wait, you didn't make one...
Ok, Rusty, I'm not bothering with this thread any more.
I gave a suggestion.
You didn't like it. Go away.
> And so my patch series replaces all 21 of them. It's a trivial replace,
> unlike sem -> mutex.
Your series doesn't "replace" anything.
It renames things with no good reason. The end result is _worse_. I told
you why. You don't like it.
> > Guys, some quality control and critical thinking, please.
>
> Good idea. If we'd done that we wouldn't have the down_trylock() brain
> damage.
You don't see the difference between "new crap" and "legacy crap that
people have historical reasons for and that people have learnt to live
with"?
Anyway, I NAK'ed your patches. Deal with it.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-03 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 0:15 Rusty Russell
2008-07-29 0:27 ` Paul Menage
2008-07-29 13:01 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-29 16:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-29 23:56 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-01 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 17:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-03 8:33 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-03 13:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-03 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-08-03 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 3:28 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-04 5:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 7:57 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-04 8:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-04 11:43 ` Rusty Russell
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