On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:39:25 +0100, Florian Mickler said: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:20:26 -0800 > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You are not updating but reading... Are you concerned about seeing > > a partial write to u32? It does not happen. > > > Hm.. You shure? On every arch that supports wireless drivers? If a u32 load or store from memory isn't atomic, the Linux kernel is screwed anyhow. Hint - imagine if every 32-bit reference had to be treated the way we currently treat 64-bit references on a 32-bit system.
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