On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > > 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?
We discussed various forms of emulating that functionality on this thread. Seems to work satisfactorily. You can discover the information you skipped by going back to some earlier messages of this thread. - 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/
