linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch: all: include: asm: bitops: Use bool instead of int for all bit test functions

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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:54:07 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, chengang@...ndsoft.com.cn,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: all: include: asm: bitops: Use bool instead of int
 for all bit test functions

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 03:03:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> - Change the Documentation/atomic_ops.txt file accordingly
>
> Not sure that really matters; that document is so out of date its nearly
> useless :-(
>
> Rewriting it is somewhere on the TODO list...

Resphinxing?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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