Re: [GIT PULL] x86: more header untangling

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Another possibility would be to make a further distinction between 'local methods' 
> and 'compound methods'. Local methods are the ones that only relate to a given
> data type. Compound methods combine multiple types. We could allow local methods in 
> type headers, and forbid compound methods.
>   

Yes, that's pretty much the approach I've been taking.  Particularly 
since these little helper functions are smoothing over a given type 
being defined in different ways in different environments (the types 
themselves are different, but the types of the functions operating on 
them are the same).

    J