On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:33:36PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:25:16AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > Do we really need another set of APIs? Can you give even one example
> > where the pre-existing volatile semantics are causing enough of a problem
> > to justify adding yet more atomic_*() APIs?
>
> Let's turn this around. Can you give a single example where
> the volatile semantics is needed in a legitimate way?
Sorry, but you are the one advocating for the change.
Nice try, though! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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