On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > But if people do seem to have a mixed / confused notion of atomicity > and barriers, and if there's consensus, then as I'd said earlier, I > have no issues in going with the consensus (eg. having API variants). > Linus would be more difficult to convince, however, I suspect :-)
The confusion may be the result of us having barrier semantics in atomic_read. If we take that out then we may avoid future confusions. - 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/
