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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:03:31 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] rearrange cpumask.h headers in conventional structure
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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.