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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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  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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