On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 09:49:11PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 21:23 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 08:48:44PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > 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? > > > > Deprecating it for a cycle then removing the prototypes and functions > > seems a bit more friendly to me. > > OK, please remember to push a checkpatch revert or equivalent > when it's done. Thanks.
Agreed, and at the same time as I remove the prototypes and functions. I expect that to be during the 6.17 merge window. Thanx, Paul