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Message-ID: <20120718090626.GA23190@arm.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:06:26 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/36] atomic64_test: Simplify the #ifdef for
 atomic64_dec_if_positive() test

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:33:57AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 22:05 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > This patch introduces ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE and uses this
> > instead of the multitude of #if defined() checks in atomic64_test.c
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> 
> I'll let other paint the bike shed as to whether ARCH_HAS_* is the right
> thing here, but as far as the powerpc change is concerned:
> 
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

Thanks Ben. I followed Andrew's feedback to some other patches that Will
posted and moved the #define to Kconfig:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/17/382

I don't have any strong preference.

-- 
Catalin
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