Re: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Clarify syntactic and semantic dependencies

From: Paul Heidekrüger
Date: Thu Jan 27 2022 - 15:49:18 EST


On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 12:04:26PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 12:00:22PM +0100, Paul Heidekrüger wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 04:00:11PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > That's a very abstract way of describing the situation; it doesn't do a
> > > good job of getting the real idea across. It also mixes up two separate
> > > ideas: behaviors being unaffected by a syntactic dependency and
> > > behaviors being undefined. They should be described separately.
> >
> > Many thanks for the feedback! I agree, the explanation works a lot
> > better once readers have been introduced to data, addr and ctrl
> > relations.
> >
> > > I would prefer something along these lines...
> >
> > Shall I resubmit the patch with you as co-developer, or, given that it's
> > arguably your work now, would you like to submit the patch yourself?
>
> I'll submit it myself, with Suggested-by: you. How does that sound?

Sounds good!

Many thanks,
Paul