On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:25:16AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Do we really need another set of APIs? Can you give even one example > where the pre-existing volatile semantics are causing enough of a problem > to justify adding yet more atomic_*() APIs?
Let's turn this around. Can you give a single example where the volatile semantics is needed in a legitimate way? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/