Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

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Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> I looked around a bit by using some command lines and ended up wondering 
> if these are equal to busy-wait case (and should be fixed) or not:
> 
> ./drivers/telephony/ixj.c
> 6674:   while (atomic_read(&j->DSPWrite) > 0)
> 6675-           atomic_dec(&j->DSPWrite);
> 
> ...besides that, there are couple of more similar cases in the same file 
> (with braces)...

Generally, ixj.c has several occurrences of couples of atomic write and
atomic read which potentially do not do what the author wanted.
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