On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:00:19PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > > At first I named it percpu_ref_free() but it looked too symmetric to > > init, more so than kill, so I was worried that people might get > > confused that this is the normal interface to shutdown a percpu > > refcnt, so the weird cancel_init name and further restriction on its > > usage. > > ...Yeah, confusion with _kill() is a good point. Ok, cancel_init() it > is.
Applied both patches to percpu/for-3.11. Added a paragraph explaining the weird naming and usage restriction just in case. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
