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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rearrange cpumask.h headers in conventional structure
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:03:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031215090331.2ca5a755.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031215001045.41b98136.pj@sgi.com>

Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> The convention for any facility that is partially generic,
>  partially arch specific is for each include/asm-* arch to
>  have it's own arch-specific header file (picked up via the
>  include/asm symlink to the current arch), and for those
>  arch-specific header files in turn to include asm-generic
>  headers, if and to the extend that they choose to make use of
>  the generic implementation.
> 
> ...
>  -#include <linux/cpumask.h>
>  +#include <asm/cpumask.h>

Personally, I rather prefer that include/linux/cpumask.h be retained, and
that it perform the inclusion of <asm/cpumask.h>.  This provides some level
of information hiding and gives us somewhere to place cpumask things which
we _know_ are arch-independent.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-15 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-15  8:10 [PATCH] rearrange cpumask.h headers in conventional structure Paul Jackson
2003-12-15 17:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-12-15 18:30   ` Paul Jackson
2003-12-16 12:15   ` [PATCH] Take 2: " Paul Jackson

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