On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> The following patch makes lock_buffer() use the exclusive wakeup scheme
> added in 2.3.
Ugh, This is horrible.
You should NOT have one function that does two completely different things
depending on a flag. That way lies madness and bad coding habits.
Just do two different functions - make one be "__wait_on_buffer()", and
the other be "__lock_buffer()". See how the page functions work.
Linus
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