Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:57:29 -0700 (PDT)
Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does your mail below stir any useful memories?

Thanks.  I did have the email, but it didn't match any of my grep
patterns.

> Some notes:

Stupid thing doesn't explain the magical locking though :( I'm 99.9%
sure that putting an up() inside a spinlock_irq()ed region was
deliberate.

> - Being heartily sick of reverse-engineering interface information
>   from implementations, I have gratuitously added comments in several
>   random parts of the kernel.  Shoot me.

hah.
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