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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 04:49:04 +0000
From:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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	Brett Rudley <brudley@...adcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman@...adcom.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] brcmfmac: dhd_sdio.c: use existing atomic_or
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On Thursday 09 July 2015 11:55 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 07/09/2015 10:13 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> > There's already a generic implementation so use that instead.
> There is or there was? If there is now I am fine with this patch, but if 
> it already was there the author might have had a reason for adding a 
> local function and I would like to hear that reason.
>

atomic_orr() was introduced to this driver with

2014-03-06 5cbb9c285bdc brcmfmac: Use atomic functions for intstatus update. 

as it seems atomic_set_mask() was not available cross arch. And atomic_or() in
generic code was indeed introduced after that

2014-04-23 560cb12a4080 locking,arch: Rewrite generic atomic support 

Hence likely the reason author went with home grown atomic_orr()

-Vineet
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