From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] enhance sysfs rfkill interface
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:48:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12058.1268437699@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:39:25 +0100." <20100312233925.74effc7d@schatten.dmk.lab>
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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@gmail.com> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-12 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-12 18:03 [PATCH 0/2] rfkill sysfs ABI florian
2010-03-12 18:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] Document the " florian
2010-03-12 18:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] enhance sysfs rfkill interface florian
2010-03-12 18:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-12 20:57 ` Florian Mickler
2010-03-12 21:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-12 22:39 ` Florian Mickler
2010-03-12 22:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-13 9:41 ` Florian Mickler
2010-03-13 9:44 ` [PATCH] rename new rfkill sysfs knobs florian
2010-03-13 9:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-13 12:31 ` [PATCH v2] " florian
2010-03-18 10:59 ` Florian Mickler
2010-03-18 13:42 ` John W. Linville
2010-03-13 9:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] enhance sysfs rfkill interface Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-13 12:33 ` Florian Mickler
2010-03-12 23:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2010-03-12 18:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] rfkill sysfs ABI Florian Mickler
2010-03-12 19:52 ` John W. Linville
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