Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752607Ab3C1TBG (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:01:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57886 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751453Ab3C1TBE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:01:04 -0400 Message-ID: <51549305.10108@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:59:17 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michel Lespinasse CC: Alex Shi , Ingo Molnar , David Howells , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Yuanhan Liu , Peter Hurley , Dave Chinner , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] rwsem: make the waiter type an enumeration rather than a bitmask References: <1363344869-15732-1-git-send-email-walken@google.com> <1363344869-15732-2-git-send-email-walken@google.com> In-Reply-To: <1363344869-15732-2-git-send-email-walken@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 17 On 03/15/2013 06:54 AM, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > We are not planning to add some new waiter flags, so we can convert the > waiter type into an enumeration. > > Background: David Howells suggested I do this back when I tried adding > a new waiter type for unfair readers. However, I believe the cleanup > applies regardless of that use case. > > Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/