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authorDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>2008-10-20 16:07:19 +0100
committerDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>2008-10-20 16:07:19 +0100
commit61e0e79ee3c609eb34edf2fe023708cba6a79b1f (patch)
tree663deacffd4071120dc9badb70428fe5f124c7b9 /Documentation/SubmitChecklist
parentc15895ef30c2c03e99802951787183039a349d32 (diff)
parent0cfd81031a26717fe14380d18275f8e217571615 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-upstream
Conflicts: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb drivers/Makefile
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@@ -85,3 +85,6 @@ kernel patches.
23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure
that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various
changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems.
+
+24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the
+ source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why.