On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > You're advocating cmpxchg is adopted by all architectures. It isn't > available on many architectures, and those which it can be requires > unnecessarily complicated coding. Not having cmpxchg is even worse because it requires the introduction and maintenance of large sets of arch specific operations. Much more complex. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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