Russell King writes: > Why can't we just use atomic_t for this?
On 64-bit platforms, atomic_t tends to be 4 bytes, whereas bitops work on arrays of unsigned long, i.e. multiples of 8 bytes. We could use atomic_long_t for this, however. Paul. - 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/
