Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:47:38 +0100
> Franck Bui-Huu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This patch moves rcu-protected lists from list.h into a new header
>> file rculist.h.
>
> I'm getting way too many compilation errors from this, perhaps because of
> new rcu-list usages which weren't present in the old tree (ie: current
> Linus mainline) which you tested it against.
>
Not really suprising, sorry for the mess.
> The most practical way to prepare a patch like this is to either make it
> back-compatible (for a while at least) or to prepare and carefully test it
> against latest -mm. That way you'll pick up everyone's new code.
>
I'll try to come up with something better: if rculist helpers are used from
list.h then issue a warning otherwise every thing is fine since the helpers
are imported from rculist.h.
Do you think it's better ?
In the meanwhile, could you drop the patches related to rculist from mm
tree ?
Thanks
Franck
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