On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:32:48 -0700 (PDT) "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:33:58 -0700 > > > I thought the concensurs here was that because doing reliable atomic > > updates of 64-bit values isn't possible on some (most?) 32-bit > > architectures so we need additional locking to make this work which is > > undesirable? (It might even be a FAQ by now as this comes up fairly > > often). > > That's correct. Also width of fields in /proc/net/dev can't change without potentially breaking ABI of applications. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
