Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: Fix carrier detection for drivers that are using phylib

From: Matt Mackall <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:06:08 -0500

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 16:51 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Does anything actually use scheduler_running yet? Perhaps my tree is
> > old.
> 
> # git grep scheduler_running
> kernel/sched.c:static __read_mostly int scheduler_running;
> kernel/sched.c: scheduler_running = 1;
> kernel/sched_rt.c:      if (unlikely(!scheduler_running))
> kernel/sched_rt.c:      if (unlikely(!scheduler_running))
> 
> If memory serves there used to be more, but I think that migrated into
> kernel/sched_clock.c, which has sched_clock_running.

The static in the first line makes that a bit of a head-scratcher? Oh, I
see: it's living in sin. Going to avert my eyes for now.

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