RFC: small syscons and kbd patch

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Garrett, good day.

Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:24:28AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Maksim Yevmenkin
>      Why are you double and triple negating on this line?
> +	return (atomic_cmpset_acq_int(&kbd->kb_locked, !!!on, !!on));

Double negation is easy -- !!N = 1 for int N != 0, so it is the way to
turn N != 0 to one.  Triple negation?  I am out of guesses, because it
seems redundant to me: !0 = 1, !5 = 0, so adding another two negations
is seem to be worthless.
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