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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:09:56 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 25/26] tile: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 05:06:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics,
> > and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock
> > pair.  This commit therefore removes the underlying arch-specific
> > arch_spin_unlock_wait().
> 
> Please don't make this one commit fopr every architecture.
> 
> Once something gets removed, it gets removed. There's no point in
> "remove it from architecture X". If there are no more users, we're
> done with it, and making it be 25 patches with the same commit message
> instead of just one doesn't help anybody.

Apologies, I will merge them.

							Thanx, Paul