From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Break out types from <linux/list.h> to <linux/list_types.h>.
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:19:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100702191910.GA5842@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007021747.o62HlgmV019405@farm-0002.internal.tilera.com>
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:41:14PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> This allows a list_head (or hlist_head, etc.) to be used from places
> that used to be impractical, in particular <asm/processor.h>, which
> used to cause include file recursion: <linux/list.h> includes
> <linux/prefetch.h>, which always includes <asm/processor.h> for the
> prefetch macros, as well as <asm/system.h>, which often includes
> <asm/processor.h> directly or indirectly.
Why a new header file instead of 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:[~2010-07-02 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <201006252110.o5PLArvw010770@farm-0002.internal.tilera.com>
[not found] ` <201006281312.16391.arnd@arndb.de>
[not found] ` <4C28BE64.4050505@tilera.com>
2010-06-28 19:34 ` [PATCH] arch/tile: Add driver to enable access to the user dynamic network Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-02 12:19 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 16:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-02 17:41 ` [PATCH] Break out types from <linux/list.h> to <linux/list_types.h> Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 19:19 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2010-07-02 19:33 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 20:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-07-02 21:09 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-03 8:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-07-03 9:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-04 1:47 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-04 3:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-07-02 20:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-02 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-02 17:52 ` [PATCH] arch/tile: Add driver to enable access to the user dynamic network Chris Metcalf
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