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

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Mar 8 03:49:01 EST 2007


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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