On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 10:34:08AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:34:33PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > Alternatively, maybe we should be removing the historical stuff from the > > document altogether if it's no longer needed. We don't have any occurrences > > of read_barrier_depends() anymore, so why confuse people with it? > > How about relegating discussion of these barriers to a special > "historical" or "niche architecture" section of the document? In a > separate patch, of course. That would work, perhaps with a little bit of commentary to say that it's no longer relevent to the kernel sources and is provided for information only. Will
