On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:42:04AM -0600, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:57:49AM -0600, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> > change the function parameter to use vaddr instead of addr to avoid a
> > variable name redefinition from 9a5ee611ca79bec98e9d97e93f11df8083b8af6e
> 
> this implementation has been already patched 6 times (not including this one)
> since it was originally introduced in Dec 12, including compilation and logic
> fixes as can be seen by :
> 
>   24a673eb377069509e8dad5ff7fa146e363df739
>   eb9270cee7061e5a985eb9eac559270292b1d7ec
>   a5e8e8a4f7ddb211d856eb30e93e70af9d51b735
>   d5855a0ec163afd591f272e13e1f2c366794306f
>   9bfdd08f0a65e67d0842ca35516669bec523fbe0
>   91051a4955255317cab0d09d8849ec12db85f924
> 
> it was meant to fix some sort of bug on i386 because it wasn't atomic but
> with so many changes I am not sure if what it was meant to do has been really
> preserved, so I think it would be better if anyone with more experience and a
> better understanding of this patch could  sheed some light on this.

It is OK now. The first patch was quite broken, thus so many fixes :(


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