Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265021AbTFLXhi (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:37:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265025AbTFLXhi (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:37:38 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:21683 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265021AbTFLXhg (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:37:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:52:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Mochel X-X-Sender: mochel@cherise To: Paul Mackerras cc: Robert Love , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue In-Reply-To: <16105.3943.510055.309447@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 16 > You can't do atomic_inc_and_read on 386. You can on cpus that have > cmpxchg (e.g. later x86). You can also on machines with load-locked > and store-conditional instructions (alpha, ppc, probably most other > RISCs). Damn, so be it. Ho hum, back to the spinlock I go.. -pat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/