On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 07:05 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:53:25PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-03-31 at 14:03 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Uses of srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite() are better > > > served by the new srcu_read_lock_fast() and srcu_read_unlock_fast() APIs. > > > As in srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite() would never have > > > happened had I thought a bit harder a few months ago. Therefore, mark > > > them deprecated. > > > > Would it be better to convert the 3 existing instances? > > Both are needed. The point of these checkpatch.pl changes is to prevent > other instances from being added.
If those are changed, why not remove the prototypes & functions too? That would stop more instances being added no?
