Messages in this thread | | | From | Ohad Ben-Cohen <> | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:57:58 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] drivers: hwspinlock: add generic framework |
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:24 AM, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote: > Your intent "generic" is fine, but you've not achieved it and thus I > think you shouldn't imply that you have. Dropping the word "generic" > should suffice; it _is_ a framework, and maybe the next person working > with hardware spinlocks can finish generalizing (and add use cases).
Sure, I can drop the word "generic".
> Haven't looked at RT in a long time. Just look at the current RT > patchset to see if it still has several spinlock variants. ISTR the > "raw" spinlock stuff came from there not long ago. Much compile-time > magic was involved in switching between variants.
I'll take a look there and see if I catch anything relevant.
Thanks, Ohad.
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