Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 sparc reiser4 build broken - undefinedatomic_sub_and_test

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> > I just like to know what atomic.h common functions would be in 2.6.9+,
> > because nowdays the API is not consisent accross the arches. 
> > atomic_sub_return() is OK.
> 
> sparc32 is very legacy;

Sparc is not really relevant in this case, as it basically uses 
atomic_sub_return() anyway, but i386 or m68k can benefit from avoiding 
atomic_sub_return() if it's possible and that not only in reiserfs.

bye, Roman
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