From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, ying.huang@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v5] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:19:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081015221947.GN15064@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081015151119.493ea13f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@wil.cx> 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>.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 9:44 [PATCH -mm -v5] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h Huang Ying
2008-10-10 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-10 21:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-14 18:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-15 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-15 22:19 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-10-15 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-18 4:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
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