Re: [PATCH -mm -v5] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Oct 15 2008 - 18:20:21 EST


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 03:11:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:47:19 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Roman Zippel did me one better and suggested just putting it in types.h,
> > which works for me.
>
> OK. Or we could do the usual include/asm-generic/atomic_types.h and
> then architectures can choose to include that if it is appropriate.
>
> Anyway the good news is that this concept is an addition to rather than
> a replacement of this current patch.

Um, no. Roman and I are against the creation of a new file. Just put
the atomic_t definition in <linux/types.h>.

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operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
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