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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-10-22 23:57:26 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-10-23 00:11:07 -0400
commit057316cc6a5b521b332a1d7ccc871cd60c904c74 (patch)
tree4333e608da237c73ff69b10878025cca96dcb4c8 /Documentation/SubmitChecklist
parent3e2dab9a1c2deb03c311eb3f83466009147ed4d3 (diff)
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into test
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c drivers/acpi/Kconfig drivers/pnp/Makefile drivers/pnp/quirks.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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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.