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Message-Id: <201004281533.29327.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:33:29 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@....de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@...bazco.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: Don't warn that atomic_t is only 24 bit

On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> 32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of 24-bit of it's atomic_t type.
> This was corrected with linux 2.6.3 when Keith M Wesolowski changed the
> implementation to use the parisc approach of having an array of
> spinlocks to protect the atomic_t.
> 
> These warnings were also removed from the sparc implementation when the
> new implementation was merged in BKrev:402e4949VThdc6D3iaosSFUgabMfvw,
> but the warning still remained in some other places without any
> 24-bit-only atomic_t implementation inside the kernel.
> 
> We should remove these warnings to allow users to rely on the full
> 32-bit range of atomic_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@....de>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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