linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18 Headers

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Message-ID: <20060716082027.GX32572@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:20:28 -0400
From:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
To:	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, arjan@...radead.org, maillist@...55.com,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:09:28PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Here we have a full-featured set of atomic ops, byte swapping
> with readable names and a distinction for pointers, nice macros
> for efficient data structure manipulation...

And userland has GCC __sync_* atomic builtins, <byteswap.h>, etc.
That stuff works in userspace, unlike most of the stuff provided by kernel
headers.

	Jakub
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