On 2018/09/06 0:00, Andrea Parri wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:33:08PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: >> On 2018/09/05 09:21:51 +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 03:09:49PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >>>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, Andrea Parri wrote: >>>>> Heh, your confusion might be the reflection of mine... ;-) That was >>>>> indeed a long and not conclusive discussion (meaning there're pending >>>>> issues); and I cannot claim to find "arguments" such as: >>>>> >>>>> "More than one kernel developer has expressed the opinion that >>>>> the LKMM should enforce ordering of writes by locking." >>>>> >>>>> particularly helpful (I do tend to be convinced by arguments rather >>>>> than by opinions). In fact, you can take the following as my only >>>>> current "constructive argument" against the patch [1,2]: >>>>> >>>>> THE COMMIT MESSAGE IS RIDICULOUS; PLEASE EXPAND ON IT, AND DO >>>>> SO BY LEVERAGING BOTH PROS AND CONS OF THE APPLIED CHANGES >>>> >>>> Do you have any concrete suggestions (i.e., some actual text) for >>>> improvements to the patch description? Earlier in your message you >>>> mentioned that Will's comment: >>>> >>>> LKMM offers stronger guarantees that can portably be relied upon >>>> in the codebase. >>>> >>>> would make a good addition. Suitably edited, it could be added to the >>>> description. I can think of a few other things myself, but I'd like to >>>> hear your thoughts. Anything else? >>> >>> Yes: I do sometimes have the impression that your "rules" for trimming >>> text in emails/replies are too aggressive... >> >> Andrea, by saying "Yes:", do you mean you have something else to be added? > > Indeed (examples in the trimmed text). So, you mean just amending commit log does not work for you? > > >> I don't think you do, but want to make sure. >> >> I'm a bit surprised to see all you wanted was the amendment of the >> commit log... > > Well, I said that it was my only current constructive argument... This thread is getting quite hard for me to follow... Akira > > Andrea > > >> >> Akira >> >>> >>> Andrea >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Alan >>>> >>
