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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:11:55 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.0-test12:
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:23:52PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> + * atomic_add - add integer to atomic variable
> + * @i: integer value to add
> + * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
> + * 
> + * Atomically adds @i to @v.

Perhaps it should mention that the guaranteed useful range of atomic_t 
is only 24bit ?  Documentation without source would rather useless if it
didn't mention such pitfalls.


-Andi


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