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Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic: add *_dec_not_zero
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 23:30, Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> wrote:
> Introduce an *_dec_not_zero operation. =C2=A0Make this a special case of
> *_add_unless because batman-adv uses atomic_dec_not_zero in different
> places like re-broadcast queue or aggregation queue management. There
> are other non-final patches which may also want to use this macro.

> =C2=A0arch/m68k/include/asm/atomic.h =C2=A0 =C2=A0 | =C2=A0 =C2=A01 +

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

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