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Linux Device Drivers
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Linux Device Drivers

by Alessandro Rubini
February 1998
Intermediate to advanced
439 pages
13h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Bit Operations

Version 2.1.37 slightly modified the role of the bit operations defined in <asm/bitops.h>. The function set_bit and its relatives now return void, while new functions like test_and_set_bit have been introduced. The new set of functions have the following prototypes:

void set_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr);
void clear_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr);
void change_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr);
int test_and_set_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr);
int test_and_clear_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr);
int test_and_change_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr);
int test_bit(nr,addr);

If you want to be backward-compatible to 2.0, you can include sysdep-2.1.h in your module and stick to the new prototypes.

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