Re: [PATCH] remove wake_up_all_sync

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 13:08:53 EST


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:59:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-09-07 at 16:11, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > no user in sight
>
> That doesn't mean its not a logical part of the API, and since its a
> define one which has zero cost in being present. I think you are taking
> things beyond the ridiculous in this area.

The sync wakeups are an absolutely special case, we're only using them
in the pipe code on __wake_up_parent. If you think it's a logical part
of the API were would you want to use it for?

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/