linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] add support for GPIO based counter

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Message-ID: <6a68010b-9c92-dc30-8bcc-9fc5c5068603@pengutronix.de>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:10:16 +0100
From:   Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        Robin van der Gracht <robin@...tonic.nl>,
        William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        David Jander <david@...tonic.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] add support for GPIO based counter

On 1/27/21 7:44 AM, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
>>> changes v3:
>>> - convert counter to atomic_t
>>
>> What's the guaranteed width of atomic_t? IIRC a long time ago it was 24 bit only....
> 
> 32 bits. The counter is wrapped after 4294967295

Note: This is only true for >= v2.6.3 :D

https://lwn.net/Articles/71732/

Feeling old,
Marc

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