linux-kernel - Re: cmpxchg is not available to generic code

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Message-Id: <20070719.135447.112263535.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	airlied@...il.com, airlied@...ux.ie, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cmpxchg is not available to generic code

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:21:41 -0700

> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:15:03 +1000 "Dave Airlie" <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we could add CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG and let DRM depend on it..
> 
> That would certainly be better than adding a sprinkle of architectures
> in DRM Kconfig dependencies.
> 
> I don't know how important DRM is on ARM.  Zero?

We already have EMULATED_CMPXCHG guarding DRM.
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