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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:37:24 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resent] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:08 -0500
William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I would rather see the text in Documentation/spinlocks give an explaination
> > as to why reader/writer locks are normally not desirable.
> >
> > The whole document needs work to make it a developer document, rather than
> > a historical mail thread.. A good document says what should be done today,
> > and does not have old junk or ask the reader to overly new context
> > on old information.
> >
> You wish me to merge our patches?
Sure, I am more concerned about document structure being readable than
preserving my sloppy prose.
> Or this is a second patch in a proposed series?
No. But taking more input from others (maybe Randy will help he is a good
editor) would get this back in shape.
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