linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] seqnum_ops: Introduce Sequence Number Ops

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Message-ID: <20201117152135.GO3121392@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:21:35 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, corbet@....net,
        keescook@...omium.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] seqnum_ops: Introduce Sequence Number Ops

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:50:15AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> 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.

It is gone.. Please read Documentation/atomic_*.txt if you want to know
about atomic_t or bitops.