Removing atomic.h from Fedora kernel headers

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jun 22 20:41:46 UTC 2007


Chuck Ebbert (cebbert at redhat.com) said: 
> Why do we explicitly remove atomic.h from our kernel header package?

IIRC, the reasoning was because the operations weren't actually
atomic when used from userspace; ergo, it was a bad idea to provide
them.

Bill




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