Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753546AbZKLTNJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753304AbZKLTNH (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:07 -0500 Received: from elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.66]:44249 "EHLO elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752806AbZKLTNG (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=laF757P+xvTs+WBNQKhUXXaGYgEbRSKj+P9IF0cKOpIDKkwGbFl344810xpzPrie; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Message-ID: <4AFC5E3F.7070609@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:03 -0500 From: Stephen Clark Reply-To: sclark46@earthlink.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090825) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Allen Simpson CC: Stephen Hemminger , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Developers , Linux Kernel Network Developers , Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned References: <4AF9C540.5090403@gmail.com> <20091110180646.2e5859a8@nehalam> <4AFAEF78.4080807@gmail.com> <20091111093724.4f40a48d@nehalam> <4AFBEC44.9030409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AFBEC44.9030409@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: a437fbc6971e80f61aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79858e8d629c1722b1b37afc45b4e9fa05350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 69.22.83.66 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1169 Lines: 37 William Allen Simpson wrote: > In recent weeks, two different network projects erroneously > strayed down the rw_lock path. Update the Documentation > based upon comments by Eric Dumazet and Paul E. McKenney in > those threads. > > Merged with editorial changes by Stephen Hemminger. > > Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney > --- > Documentation/spinlocks.txt | 186 > ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- > 1 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-) > How up to date is this doc? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/index.html Should it be in the Documentation directory? -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson) -- 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/