Re: Memory address alignment and atomic operations.

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:12:26AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Hello, Greg.
> 
> "Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>" wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:25:53PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > I want to use something like RCU (read copy update).
> > Why not just use RCU then?  There are a number of RCU list operations
> > already in the kernel.  They should work for you, right?
> 
> Yes, you are right. But I want to support 2.4 and 2.6 .

Ah, good luck with that :)

> And at the version 2.4.28, RCU is not supported yet.

Why not just backport it?

Your driver is going to be released under the GPL, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

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