On Tue, 13 May 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > > No, *everyone* (except arch-only non-alpha developer) needs to know about > it. Umm. In architecture files, by definition, only alpha needs to know about it. That was very much an architecture-specific file: we're talking about asm-x86/pgtable_32.h here. > x86 especially is a reference and often is a proving ground for code that > becomes generic, so I'd say even x86 developers should need to know about > it too. And in reference files that are architecture-specific, there is absolutely *no point* in ever having read_barrier_depends(). Because even if another architecture copies it, it's better off without it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
