lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <050d5555-f8b4-f54d-e13c-149815b1b64c@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:50:15 -0700
From:   Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     corbet@....net, keescook@...omium.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] seqnum_ops: Introduce Sequence Number Ops

On 11/16/20 7:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:49:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 09:03:27PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> I think almost all of this information should go into atomic_ops.rst
>>
>> No, we should delete atomic_ops.rst. It's bitrotted nonsense. The only
> 
> Sod it, I'll just queue a deletion. That'll stop people from trying to
> update the trainwreck.
> 

Please don't delete the document. This is one of the documents that has
the information to make decisions about the api usage.

atomic_t information is spread out in various Doc directories. It should
be consolidated, instead of removing files.

thanks,
-- Shuah

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ