On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:38:27 -0400 M. Asselstine wrote: > > > Looking at Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt and grepping for these > > macros in the kernel tree reveal that things are close to allowing > > this task to be completed. I would like to propose that the remainder > > of this work be completed, cleaning up documentation and code related > > to this deprecation. I am willing to do the work but just wanted to > > put a feeler out there to determine if there is any reason not to > > proceed. I also wanted to make sure there wasn't anyone else doing > > this already. > > Hi, > > The biggest issue is that this isn't a simple grep for and then > substitute new strings for the old ones. If that's all it was, > it would have been completed long ago. > > Some actual thought/design has to be done on several of these in > order to do the locking correctly in all possible contexts, so if > you are up for that, go ahead. I don't think that anyone else is > doing this just now. > Yes I realize that this is more then a simple replacement job and that it will involve some thought. I think with the small numbers of these remaining I can devote the necessary time and thought. If not I can at minimum get a few steps closer to getting rid of these, even if I manage to get rid of only one or two. Mark > --- > ~Randy > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
