On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 08:43:09AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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.
And which bit of "not available on many architectures" have you not grasped yet? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
