Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:08:30 -0700

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