On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:57:44PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> > I thought we killed off wq_write_lock_irqsave 1-2 kernels ago ?
> It depends on what you mean by killed off. I submitted a patch to Linus back
> at 2.5.3 to clean up the way the completion code called the wait queue
> interface. This interface got added then. You picked up those changes at
> that time (and still have them in your kernel tree) but the changes have
> never made it into Linus' tree.
>
> So, Linus has never had the code to 'kill' and you've never dropped it
> after picking it up.
Your patch was to use wq_write_lock and friends in sched.c iirc.
That change is now removed from my tree (though I've not put up a
version containing that change yet).
Since 2.5.20 or so, the wq_write_lock functions are dead as in gone.
Not around, Extinct. They are ex-functions.
Dave
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