Re: [PATCH 06/18] compat: backport ASYNC_DOMAIN_EXCLUSIVE()

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 12:32 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> >> Oh I agree don't get me wrong, however porting kernel/async.c seems
>> >> like a rather separate effort worth considering. As-is though I have
>> >> not seen any negative impact though to keep older subsystems from
>> >> compiling, ie its a no-op for older kernels as I see it.
>> >
>> > I guess that's what I don't understand -- I don't see usages of
>> > ASYNC_DOMAIN_EXCLUSIVE in any header files, and in e.g. regulator/core.c
>> > you'd also need the functions async_schedule_domain() etc. So where does
>> > this help even compiling?
>>
>> You know what, sorry this was left over from when I tried to backport
>> the regulatory to the core of compat, and since I decided to not even
>> go there given that it relies on init sections on the vmlinux we can
>> safely discard this patch (although what I said still hold, just not
>> needed).
>
> Ok. Yeah after looking at the users I actually do agree this won't
> really hurt, but it seemed it doesn't help anything at all hence my
> confusion... :)

Yea its fine to drop for now.

  Luis
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