Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757393AbYHDDhK (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:37:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752861AbYHDDg6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:36:58 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:51758 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752106AbYHDDg5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:36:57 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock() Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:28:45 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Paul Menage , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , "Randy.Dunlap" , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig References: <200807291015.02865.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808041328.45773.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 23 On Monday 04 August 2008 03:35:41 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Anyway, I NAK'ed your patches. Deal with it. > > Btw, "dealing with it" can just be "don't bother". Yes, let's not make a mountain out of a molehill. Someone sent me a patch documenting the illogic of down_trylock(). I decided to try to fix it rather than just bitch and moan. Kernel coding involves occasionally getting fed a Linus-special shit sandwich rant. I've long given up expecting a polite "No; please just replace them all with mutexes" one-liner. I might have actually been shocked into doing it. Consider the patches forgotten, Rusty. -- 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/