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    lib: add lib/gcd.c · d2829224
    Florian Fainelli authored
    
    This patch adds lib/gcd.c which contains a greatest common divider
    implementation taken from sound/core/pcm_timer.c
    
    Several usages of this new library function will be sent to subsystem
    maintainers.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use swap() (pointed out by Joe)]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: just add gcd.o to obj-y, remove Kconfig changes]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
    Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
    Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
    Cc: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    d2829224
gcd.c 291 Bytes
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/gcd.h>
#include <linux/module.h>

/* Greatest common divisor */
unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
{
	unsigned long r;

	if (a < b)
		swap(a, b);
	while ((r = a % b) != 0) {
		a = b;
		b = r;
	}
	return b;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gcd);