linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: atomic_ops: atomic_set is a write (not read) operation

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Date:   Tue,  5 Jun 2018 21:43:23 +0200
From:   Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
To:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: atomic_ops: atomic_set is a write (not read) operation

Describe it as such.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
---
 Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
index 2e7165f86f55..724583453e1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ updated by one CPU, local_t is probably more appropriate. Please see
 local_t.
 
 The first operations to implement for atomic_t's are the initializers and
-plain reads. ::
+plain writes. ::
 
 	#define ATOMIC_INIT(i)		{ (i) }
 	#define atomic_set(v, i)	((v)->counter = (i))
-- 
2.17.1