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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] wait-simple: Introduce the simple waitqueue implementation
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:48:06 -0500
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:

> 1) git mv wait.[ch] --- > cwait.[ch]
> make an empty wait.h include cwait.h temporarily
>
> 2) rename all existing functions in cwait.[ch] to have an added
> "c" prefix (or similar)
>
> in wait.h, temporarily add a bunch of things like
> #define wait_xyz cwait_xyz
> so that things still compile and link.

What about instead change all users of wait_*() to cwait_*().

Then the next steps would be to skip 3 and jump right to 4)

>
> 3) track down the users who really need the extra complexity
> and have them use cwait calls and include cwait.h
>
> 4) bring in the simple wait queue support as wait.c and wait.h
> and delete the defines added in step two. This will be the
> flag day commit.

Not a flag day commit, as no one is using it. Then start converting all
users back to the wait_*() functions one at a time. If something
breaks, we know which one it was.

-- Steve

>
> Is that what we want to do here?
>


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