Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262538AbVCKFKr (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:10:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263176AbVCKFKr (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:10:47 -0500 Received: from umhlanga.stratnet.net ([12.162.17.40]:7775 "EHLO umhlanga.STRATNET.NET") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262538AbVCKFKo (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:10:44 -0500 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jody McIntyre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org, Nathan Scott Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 1/3] Add sem_getcount() to arches that lack it X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20050311000646.GJ1111@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> <20050310205503.6151ab83.akpm@osdl.org> From: Roland Dreier Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:10:42 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20050310205503.6151ab83.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:55:03 -0800") Message-ID: <52fyz2938t.fsf@topspin.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Mar 2005 05:10:42.0337 (UTC) FILETIME=[AC562110:01C525F8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 497 Lines: 12 Andrew> (Why do they want to do this anyway?) Neither use seems really fundamental. The XFS use is explicitly inside #ifdef DEBUG and seems to be used only for assertions. ieee1394 is just sticking the value in a read-only sysfs attribute. - R. - 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/