Re: [RFC PATCH -lkmm] docs/memory-barriers: Fix inconsistent name of 'data dependency barrier'

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 10:34:08AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:34:33PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Alternatively, maybe we should be removing the historical stuff from the
> > document altogether if it's no longer needed. We don't have any occurrences
> > of read_barrier_depends() anymore, so why confuse people with it?
> 
> How about relegating discussion of these barriers to a special 
> "historical" or "niche architecture" section of the document?  In a 
> separate patch, of course.

That would work, perhaps with a little bit of commentary to say that it's
no longer relevent to the kernel sources and is provided for information
only.

Will