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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:43:02 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/1] rename {before/after}_atomic_{inc/dec} to
 {before/after}_atomic
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On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:28:10AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>  There is no reason to have separete barriers for atomic_inc and atomic_dec. 
>  All the architectures use the same barriers for both.
> 
>  We can simplify it and just have {before/after}_atomic after renaming.
> 
>  I used coccinelle script to do the renames in the C files and did the rename by hand in the headers.
> 
> v2: 
> * remove duplicate macros in missed files
> * correct indentation
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>

See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139782635207358 and the 20 or so
patches afterwards.

This has already been done. See a -next tree or so near you.