Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] sctp: remove some macro locking wrappers

From: Vlad Yasevich <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:16:09 -0500

On 01/21/2014 02:44 AM, Wang Weidong wrote:
> In sctp.h we can find some macro locking wrappers. As Neil point out that:
> 
> "Its because in the origional implementation of the sctp protocol, there was a
> user space test harness which built the kernel module for userspace execution to
> cary our some unit testing on the code.  It did so by redefining some of those
> locking macros to user space friendly code.  IIRC we haven't use those unit
> tests in years, and so should be removing them, not adding them to other
> locations."
> 
> So I remove them.
> 
> Wang Weidong (7):
>   sctp: remove macro sctp_spin_[un]lock_irqrestore
>   sctp: remove macro sctp_local_bh_{disable|enable}
>   sctp: remove macro sctp_spin_[un]lock
>   sctp: remove macros sctp_write_[un]_lock
>   sctp: remove macros sctp_read_[un]lock
>   sctp: remove macros sctp_{lock|release}_sock
>   sctp: remove macros sctp_bh_[un]lock_sock
> 
>  include/net/sctp/sctp.h  | 27 ++-----------
>  net/sctp/endpointola.c   |  4 +-
>  net/sctp/input.c         | 54 +++++++++++++-------------
>  net/sctp/proc.c          | 12 +++---
>  net/sctp/protocol.c      |  4 +-
>  net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 16 ++++----
>  net/sctp/socket.c        | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  7 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)
> 

I like this series just the way it is.  Very simple to review.

Series
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <[email-masked]>

Thanks
-vlad