Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965181AbWH2Rkw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:40:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965178AbWH2Rkw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:40:52 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:22683 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965181AbWH2Rkv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:40:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:40:17 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andi Kleen Cc: David Howells , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Dong Feng , Paul Mackerras , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent? Message-Id: <20060829104017.875733e5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200608291256.54665.ak@suse.de> References: <44F395DE.10804@yahoo.com.au> <1156750249.3034.155.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <11861.1156845927@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <200608291256.54665.ak@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 612 Lines: 14 On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:56:54 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > While I'm sure it's an interesting intellectual exercise to do these > advanced rwsems it would be better for everybody else to go for a single > maintainable C implementation. metoo. It's irritating having multiple implementations around, never being sure which version people are running with. - 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/