linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: to convert spinlocks to raw ones.

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Message-ID: <17902.60669.945986.186995@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2007 03:49:01 +1100
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
Cc:	Tsutomu OWA <tsutomu.owa@...hiba.co.jp>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: to convert spinlocks to raw
	ones.

Sergei Shtylyov writes:

>     I've already sent a patch fixing this one (along with many others) a month 
> ago:
> 
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-February/031164.html
> 
>     I wonder iof it was ever considered... :-/

The entire patch description was just this:

> Convert the spinlocks in the PowerPC interrupt related code into the raw ones,
> also convert the PURR and PMC related spinlocks...

which says what you did, but gives NO CLUE about why this might be a
good thing to do - what problem it fixes or what desirable outcome it
produces.  I will not apply patches with inadequate descriptions.

Paul.
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