Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:56:24AM +0000, David Woodhouse (dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares 
> > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field.
> 
> This fixes drivers/connector/connector.c to cope...
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yep, there are already four different patches to fix it.
Proper one will be pushed through David Miller's netdev tree splitted into 
fix and delayed work removal.

Thanks David.
 
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> dwmw2

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	Evgeniy Polyakov
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