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From: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:34:35 -0500
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] arm: asm/cmpxchg.h: Add support half-word xchg()
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Actually, I think we ought to get rid of __bad_xchg() so that cases
> like this cause a link error instead of a runtime error, just like we
> do in other cases as well.
>
> That's something that goes back ages (it used to be called something
> like invalidptr in 2.0 kernels...)

That sounds like a good idea. I will cook up a patch doing this.

Thanks!
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Pranith
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