Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:18:06 +1100
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       willy@debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 1/3] Add sem_getcount() to arches that lack it
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References: <20050311000646.GJ1111@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> <20050310205503.6151ab83.akpm@osdl.org> <52fyz2938t.fsf@topspin.com>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:10:42PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     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.

Right, our peeking at that value is debug-only (so usually its not
even compiled in).  I wouldn't go out of your way to add a more
permanent interface just for this, we can live without it.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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