Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Nick Piggin <piggin@...>, Satyam Sharma <satyam@...>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>, Chris Snook <csnook@...>, Ilpo Jarvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...>, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-arch@...>, Netdev <netdev@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <ak@...>, <heiko.carstens@...>, David Miller <davem@...>, <schwidefsky@...>, <wensong@...>, <horms@...>, <wjiang@...>, <cfriesen@...>, <zlynx@...>, <rpjday@...>, <jesper.juhl@...>, <segher@...>
the arch/ people obviously are allowed to do their own locking stuff...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO IMPLEMENT THAT!
the arch maintainers know EXACTLY how their hw behaves (well, we hope)
so they tend to be the exception to many rules in the kernel....
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