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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 01:35:16 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] cmpxchg patch
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>>>>> On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 10:26:42 -0600, Ray Bryant <raybry@engr.sgi.com> said:

  Ray> It seems to me that the size of the result of
  Ray> cmpxchg(ptr,old,new) should depend on the size of *ptr and not
  Ray> the size of old.

  Ray> Attached is a patch to fix.

Have you actually tried building a kernel with the patch applied?  I
think you'll get errors in atomic.h.  I'm willing to entertain a
better solution, but it needs to be a complete solution.

Thanks,

	--david