Re: [PATCH resent] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned

From: William Allen Simpson
Date: Wed Nov 11 2009 - 12:08:22 EST


Stephen Hemminger wrote:
I would rather see the text in Documentation/spinlocks give an explaination
as to why reader/writer locks are normally not desirable.

The whole document needs work to make it a developer document, rather than
a historical mail thread.. A good document says what should be done today,
and does not have old junk or ask the reader to overly new context
on old information.

You wish me to merge our patches?

Or this is a second patch in a proposed series?
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