Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] seqnum_ops: Introduce Sequence Number Ops

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:50:15AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 11/16/20 7:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:49:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 09:03:27PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > I think almost all of this information should go into atomic_ops.rst
> > > 
> > > No, we should delete atomic_ops.rst. It's bitrotted nonsense. The only
> > 
> > Sod it, I'll just queue a deletion. That'll stop people from trying to
> > update the trainwreck.
> > 
> 
> Please don't delete the document. This is one of the documents that has
> the information to make decisions about the api usage.
> 
> atomic_t information is spread out in various Doc directories. It should
> be consolidated, instead of removing files.

It is gone.. Please read Documentation/atomic_*.txt if you want to know
about atomic_t or bitops.