[PATCH 1/2] ARM: PXA: PXAFB: Fix double-free issue.

Eric Miao eric.y.miao at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 21:24:52 EST 2011


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:17:41PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Why are you getting rid of the atomic operations ?
>
> Because they're idiotic.  Just because something is called "atomic"
> doesn't make it so, and this is one instance where it's absolutely
> useless.

Yep, I completely agree that's useless here.



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