Re: [Lse-tech] Subject: [RFC][PATCH] Fix for unsafe notifier chain mechanism

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sat Nov 12 2005 - 17:37:59 EST


On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:01:02PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > It's not really duplicate documentation since _both_ pointers are to be
> > > RCU-dereferenced. But maybe you mean that only the second pointer can be
> > > RCU-dereferenced at the time the write occurs? I don't think that's what
> > > the documentation comment intended.
> >
> > I am the guy who wrote that documentation ocmment. ;-)
>
> In that case I bow to your advice. :-)

Any advice on how to change the documentation so as to make the intent
more clear would of course be most welcome!

Thanx, Paul
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