Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Feb 28 2008 - 06:27:45 EST


> hm, why should it be atomic wrt. irqs? There's nothing that keeps gcc

It isn't - we've got tty layer traces of serial counts going wrong that
rely on precisely that assumption.

Alan
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