Re: [PATCH RT 7/9][RFC] [PATCH 7/9] cpu/rt: Rework cpu down for PREEMPT_RT

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On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 16:20 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > Already queued. I'd say #4 is a bug fix as well, though I
> > fundamentally hate the ass backwards semantics of that new function.
> 
> It is a bug fix, but I don't like it either. Note, that the patch didn't
> update the pin_current_cpu() code, which would have to be done too (to
> be a full fix).

I know.
 
> But I was also thinking that as a work around, as we plan on changing
> this code anyway. Instead of adding a new API which is ass backwards,
> just encompass the cpu_hotplug.lock instead. Something like this:

Thought about that already. It's way less fugly.
 
Thanks,

	tglx
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