Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755510AbZDURUI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:20:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752210AbZDURT4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:19:56 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58309 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752127AbZDURTz (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:19:55 -0400 Message-ID: <49EE0013.6010008@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:19:15 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: Hitoshi Mitake , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: arch/x86/Kconfig selects invalid HAVE_READQ, HAVE_WRITEQ vars References: <20090419214602.GA21527@elte.hu> <49EBCDC0.1020001@zytor.com> <20090420105304.GC6670@elte.hu> <20090420160332.GB9689@elte.hu> <49EDE9E9.8090905@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 598 Lines: 19 Roland Dreier wrote: > > However I worry that this just leaves driver authors too much rope. > Choosing readq_atomic() vs. readq() is just one more thing to get wrong. > ... as is having each driver implementing their own substitutes. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/