Re: [PATCH] make INIT_FS use the __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED initialization

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Dec 10 2008 - 20:11:22 EST



On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 18:43, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:37:28PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >>
> >> The following patch is in:
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> >>
> >> branch: cleanups
> >
> > Would be better to take init_fs to something in fs/ or kernel/ and kill
> > the duplicates, along with INIT_FS macro itself...
>
> how about the next level: unify init_task.c. a quick check shows that
> like 90% of the stuff in there is the same for everyone ...
> -mike

I could probably do it for x86 and PPC, but beyond that, each arch
maintainer will have to do it separately. That's a change that would need
testing.

These changes are trivial (something I need to get RT working).

-- Steve

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