On 13-12-12 09:55 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:48:06 -0500 > Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com> wrote: > >> 1) git mv wait.[ch] --- > cwait.[ch] >> make an empty wait.h include cwait.h temporarily >> >> 2) rename all existing functions in cwait.[ch] to have an added >> "c" prefix (or similar) >> >> in wait.h, temporarily add a bunch of things like >> #define wait_xyz cwait_xyz >> so that things still compile and link. > > What about instead change all users of wait_*() to cwait_*().
This might turn out to be a big patch, but it is largely just a mechanical sed, so I guess that is OK. > > Then the next steps would be to skip 3 and jump right to 4) > >> >> 3) track down the users who really need the extra complexity >> and have them use cwait calls and include cwait.h >> >> 4) bring in the simple wait queue support as wait.c and wait.h >> and delete the defines added in step two. This will be the >> flag day commit. > > Not a flag day commit, as no one is using it. Then start converting all > users back to the wait_*() functions one at a time. If something > breaks, we know which one it was. Yep, I think that would work and would avoid the flag day problem that I was dreading. Paul. -- > > -- Steve > >> >> Is that what we want to do here? >> -- 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/
