Re: [PATCH] doc fix - brlock was removed in the 3.13 kernel series

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Dec 25 2014 - 09:43:07 EST


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On 12/25/2014 06:29 AM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> The brlock was completely removed in the 3.13 kernel series. see
> commit 0f6ed63b1707 ("no need to keep brlock macros anymore...")
>
> It seems that documentation in seqlock.h was not updated to
> reflect this. This patch drops the (hopefully last) false brlock
> reference. All remaining references to brlock refer to byte-range
> locks (notably in cifs) and not to "Big Reader Lock" and should be
> correct.
>
> patch is against 3.19.0-rc1 linux-next
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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