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 |
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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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