linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix sparc TIF

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Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:31:09 -0500
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mbligh@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix sparc TIF_USEDFPU flag atomicity

* William Lee Irwin III (wli@...omorphy.com) wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:26:46 -0800, William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com> wrote:
> >> Oh dear. Could we bit a bit more idiomatic here? For instance,
> >> something like:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:29:44AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > Ok I pulled the sparc32 patch back out until there is some
> > consensus here :)
> 
> It's just a minor touch-up. If Mathieu is okay with it, I'd rather
> leave him as the author and just send along an Acked-by: with it.
> I'm not terribly attached to it, either. I just choked on my soda
> when I saw set_ti_thread_flag(task_thread_info(fpt), TI_USEDFPU)
> etc. go by. (Which reminds me, I really need to figure out how to
> consolidate the UP and SMP cases for all this.)
> 
> 
> -- wli

Hello,

William's implementation is indeed neater than mine. So the consensus
goes to his patch as far as I'm concerned.

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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