Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:48:22 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm -v3] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h | |
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Huang Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>> > asm/atomic.h contains both declaration and implementation of atomic_t. So
> there are some implementation related files included in asm/atomic.h. And
> atomic_t is a typedef. Combination of above makes it impossible to use
> atomic_t in files included by atomic.h. Such as atomic_t can not be used
> in linux/kernel.h on i386, because it is included by asm/atomic.h.
> > It is reasonable to separate declaration from implementation. So a new
> file atomic_def.h is added for every architecture to accommodate the
> declaration of atomic_t.
And how many of these atomic_def.h are identical?
asm-generic?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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