On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 12:15:50AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 05:01:36PM -0500, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:50:06 -0800 > >> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > I am guessing that this patch is against an old version of this file > >> > (there have been two patches applied to this example in the last six > >> > months). I believe that the current version is correct, in other words, > >> > that Alexey Dobriyan and Pranith Kumar beat you to this one. ;-) > >> > >> I thought it looked familiar somehow...patch dropped. > >> > >> I guess it's comforting to know that so many people are reading that file > >> so closely, but it's a little scary too...:) > > > > What scares me is that so few people appear to have been reading it > > earlier on. ;-) > > Or they read it but failed to understand it. Not sure which is scarier. > > Those are probably the Evil Vendor Tree developers who apparently think > "this is hard, best put volatile and barriers _everywhere_ and hope for > the best." "This is hard!!! Let's go do some single-threaded programming!" ;-) Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
