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Message-Id: <1153099599.3150.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:26:18 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com> Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>, dwmw2@...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 Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:22 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On 7/16/06, Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:38:45PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > On 7/16/06, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com> wrote: > > > >On Jul 15, 2006, at 17:09:28, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > > > > >You realize that on a couple architectures it's fundamentally > > > >impossible to get atomic ops completely in userspace, right? > > > > > > Sure. Those architectures don't need to drag down the rest. > > > Plenty of headers are only exported for some architectures. > > > > Wrong perspective. The problem is that they may _appear_ to work as > > described, but not actually work in the intended way. That's a bug, > > and it's a _hard_ bug to locate. > > Again: > > Plenty of headers are only exported for some architectures. and guess what... atomic.h does not work on i386, at least it doesn't provide atomic access in userspace! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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