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Message-ID: <20061218090545.GC21778@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:05:45 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, matthew@....cx,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:56:24AM +0000, David Woodhouse (dwmw2@...radead.org) wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares 
> > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field.
> 
> This fixes drivers/connector/connector.c to cope...
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>

Yep, there are already four different patches to fix it.
Proper one will be pushed through David Miller's netdev tree splitted into 
fix and delayed work removal.

Thanks David.
 
> -- 
> dwmw2

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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