Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/rcupdate.c: kill synchronize_kernel()

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Apr 11 2006 - 11:12:05 EST


On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:53:56PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:51:01AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > synchronize_kernel() is both deprecated and completely unused.
> >
> > Let's kill this bloat.
>
> Probably a good idea, but then it's not too useful to have
> http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcu/HOWTO/descrip.html
> still prominently mention it...

My May 1st patches will update the documentation files as well,
also the -rt tree. Please let me take care of this.

Thanx, Paul
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