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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: "'Akinobu Mita'" <mita@miraclelinux.com>, "Grant Grundler" <iod00d@hp.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit()
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 07:11:34 -0800
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Akinobu Mita wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:29 PM
> This patch introduces the C-language equivalents of the functions below:
> 
> - atomic operation:
> void set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr);
> void clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr);
> void change_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr);
> int test_and_set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr);
> int test_and_clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr);
> int test_and_change_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr);

I wonder why you did not make these functions take volatile
unsigned int * address argument?

- Ken