Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933605AbaLCA1j (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2014 19:27:39 -0500 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:35718 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750942AbaLCA1h (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2014 19:27:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:27:31 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Srikanth Thokala , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: memory-barriers: Fix typo in the first example Message-ID: <20141203002731.GE25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1416285598-6630-1-git-send-email-sriku.linux@gmail.com> <20141202161519.581ea1af@lwn.net> <20141202215006.GT25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20141202170136.7fb6f6a0@lwn.net> <20141202220935.GW25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14120300-0013-0000-0000-000006B63B3D Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 12:15:50AM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > "Paul E. McKenney" writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 05:01:36PM -0500, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:50:06 -0800 > >> "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > >> > >> > I am guessing that this patch is against an old version of this file > >> > (there have been two patches applied to this example in the last six > >> > months). I believe that the current version is correct, in other words, > >> > that Alexey Dobriyan and Pranith Kumar beat you to this one. ;-) > >> > >> I thought it looked familiar somehow...patch dropped. > >> > >> I guess it's comforting to know that so many people are reading that file > >> so closely, but it's a little scary too...:) > > > > What scares me is that so few people appear to have been reading it > > earlier on. ;-) > > Or they read it but failed to understand it. Not sure which is scarier. > > Those are probably the Evil Vendor Tree developers who apparently think > "this is hard, best put volatile and barriers _everywhere_ and hope for > the best." "This is hard!!! Let's go do some single-threaded programming!" ;-) Thanx, Paul -- 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/