> > > >There is a #define for atomic_dec_and_lock when compiling for UP. I >suspect that you have been bitten by the broken makefiles, otherwise >everybody would be reporting problems with 2.4.14. Before you send any >more patches (and before your existing patches are used), please follow >the steps in http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8. > >If you still get problems after that, mail the error messages and your >.config instead of sending patches to "fix" bugs which nobody else is >seeing. You should include the errors you are getting, otherwise we >cannot tell if the patch makes sense or not. > Agreed and understood, that was my fault. I saw that dec_and_lock.c did not compiled. So, I began to think that was the case. Balbir