From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <4EDC0CD5.2090601@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:14:13 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1323013369-29691-1-git-send-email-sven@narfation.org> <20111204213316.GB14542@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1699880.NTdz2k3W9O@sven-laptop.home.narfation.org> <20111204221850.GC14542@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1323038515.11728.26.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1323038515.11728.26.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv5] atomic: add *_dec_not_zero To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Sven Eckelmann , linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens , Randy Dunlap , Paul Mackerras , Helge Deller , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Richard Weinberger , Hirokazu Takata , x86@kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" , Ingo Molnar , Matt Turner , Fenghua Yu , Arnd Bergma nn , Jeff Dike , Chris Metcalf , linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org, Ivan Kokshaysky , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Richard Henderson , Tony Luck , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , Kyle McMartin , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky , linux390@de.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "David S. Miller" List-ID: On 12/04/2011 02:41 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I agree with Russell, his approach is a lot easier to maintain long run, > we should even consider converting existing definitions. > Thirded. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.