Sven Eckelmann wrote: [...]
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de [sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Change atomic64_* back to atomic_*] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@gmx.de
Simon Wunderlich: These changes required to increase the compatibility level once again. It should therefore only applied to the upcoming 0.3 branch.
Sven Eckelmann: Please don't apply this patch unless we got a "save to assume 32 bit for atomic_t after linux 2.6.3" message from kernel maintainers.
As it seems these comments were obsolete in the kernel and the code documentation will be changed in an upcoming kernel version. Patches on the lkml were already acked by different arch developers.
As result we can use atomic_t as datatype with a 32 bit range since 2.6.3. I would like to promote the patch version with atomic_t instead of atomic64_t for 32 bit seqno. Marek already declared that he would prefer the version with atomic_t. Maybe you can check too if you can ack this change.
Best regards, Sven