Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:37:45 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an arch doesn't support it |
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > > I utterly disagree. I could code atomic_add() as:
Sure. And Alpha could do that too. If you write the C code a specific way, you can make it work. That does NOT mean that you can expose it widely as a portable interface - it's still just a very _nonportable_ interface that you use internally within one architecture to implement other interfaces.
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