Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:43:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
       Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: do not expose CONFIG_BSWAP to userspace
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Harvey Harrison wrote:

> Well, that's unfortunate, how about we just export the BSWAP version
> unconditionally and hope pure i386 just goes away someday?

 Or just emulate it alongside CMPXCHG and XADD? ;)

  Maciej
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