On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 16:41 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Chuck Ebbert (cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Why do we explicitly remove atomic.h from our kernel header package? > > IIRC, the reasoning was because the operations weren't actually > atomic when used from userspace; ergo, it was a bad idea to provide > them. > > Bill ... Unless you define CONFIG_SMP (which in turn, defines LOCK_PREFIX) I assume that up-stream will shoot me for suggesting that... but why not just add: #ifndef __KERNEL__ #define LOCK_PREFIX "lock; " #endif ... and make atomic_xxx safe for user-land? - Gilboa _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
