Re: Inconsistent "#ifdef __KERNEL__" on different architectures

[Philip Blundell]

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>--- include/asm-arm/atomic.h.old	Sun May 27 22:30:58 2001
>+++ include/asm-arm/atomic.h	Sun May 27 22:58:20 2001
>@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  *   13-04-1997	RMK	Made functions atomic!
>  *   07-12-1997	RMK	Upgraded for v2.1.
>  *   26-08-1998	PJB	Added #ifdef __KERNEL__
>+ *   27-05-2001	APB     Removed #ifdef __KERNEL__
>  */
> #ifndef __ASM_ARM_ATOMIC_H
> #define __ASM_ARM_ATOMIC_H
>@@ -30,7 +31,6 @@

This is no good.  The ARM kernel just doesn't provide any atomic primitives 
that will work in user space.  If you want atomicity you have to use 
libpthread.

p.

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>--- include/asm-arm/atomic.h.old	Sun May 27 22:30:58 2001
>+++ include/asm-arm/atomic.h	Sun May 27 22:58:20 2001
>@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  *   13-04-1997	RMK	Made functions atomic!
>  *   07-12-1997	RMK	Upgraded for v2.1.
>  *   26-08-1998	PJB	Added #ifdef __KERNEL__
>+ *   27-05-2001	APB     Removed #ifdef __KERNEL__
>  */
> #ifndef __ASM_ARM_ATOMIC_H
> #define __ASM_ARM_ATOMIC_H
>@@ -30,7 +31,6 @@

This is no good.  The ARM kernel just doesn't provide any atomic primitives 
that will work in user space.  If you want atomicity you have to use 
libpthread.

p.

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