Re: please pull from the trivial tree

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: [...] > > would leave a comment that is correct, but less useful (I'd expect any > > kernel hacker to know that u64 is non-atomic on many platforms). > > > If kernel hackers are expected to a

Re: please pull from the trivial tree

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > > Chase Venters (1): > > Fix jiffies.h comment > > This one actually obscures the comment rather than fixing it. > > >From jiffies.h: > > 76 /* > > 77 * The 64-bit value is not volatile - you MUST NOT read it > > 78 * withou

Re: please pull from the trivial tree

> Chase Venters (1): > Fix jiffies.h comment This one actually obscures the comment rather than fixing it. >From jiffies.h: > 76 /* > 77 * The 64-bit value is not volatile - you MUST NOT read it > 78 * without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock. > 79 * get_jiffies_64() will do th