Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757950AbZKKRIM (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757705AbZKKRIL (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:11 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:42627 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757486AbZKKRIK (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:10 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lbhfWTrYoKr0BYOgLQwFO41WrgJljSDzUDH7jd2Xtjfabw+OR3DVgEHVElmgPI5hAV wcZcDc8sPvL1Tdlc6kOx8b68R9yP/SbDuwYOjPYwyUzYg1y+g2hz7owSGysPENKSqxgg xb3uPjJglRQnCdVIXIVtUQ3Ghj/qXa0qLIRGM= Message-ID: <4AFAEF78.4080807@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:08 -0500 From: William Allen Simpson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger CC: "Paul E. McKenney" , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Developers , Linux Kernel Network Developers , Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH resent] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned References: <4AF9C540.5090403@gmail.com> <20091110180646.2e5859a8@nehalam> In-Reply-To: <20091110180646.2e5859a8@nehalam> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 17 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I would rather see the text in Documentation/spinlocks give an explaination > as to why reader/writer locks are normally not desirable. > > The whole document needs work to make it a developer document, rather than > a historical mail thread.. A good document says what should be done today, > and does not have old junk or ask the reader to overly new context > on old information. > You wish me to merge our patches? Or this is a second patch in a proposed series? -- 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/