[PATCH v5 1/3] ARM: Introduce atomic MMIO modify

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Tue Dec 10 12:09:54 EST 2013


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:00:25PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:49:07PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(atomic_io_modify_relaxed);

> > This looks quite generic - why is it in architecture specific code?

> because the _relaxed IO operators don't exist on other architectures, and
> there's been some discussion around whether they should with no conclusions
> being reached.

Oh, that's depressing.  I guess the non-relaxed version could be made
generic but meh.
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