On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:26:10PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Russell King <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:03:53 +0100
>
> > What business has userspace got of telling whether cmpxchg works on
> > an architecture by looking at kernel headers?
>
> Russell, please don't fly off the handle like this.
Sigh, I wasn't. I was making a valid point. Maybe if you read the
bit I quoted you'd have realised that, which was:
> I think userspace synchronization may be quite a valid use of
^^^^^^^^^
> atomic cmpxchg, but Kconfig is a far better place to do it than
> testing HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG.
But maybe I'm not capable of interpreting the above english? To
me at least it's definitely talking about user space, not kernel
space.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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