Re: [2.6 patch] kill include/linux/platform.h

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:23:41AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:07:12PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> >  > > The default_idle() prototype should stay inside some header file.
> >  > 
> >  > That would be best, yes.
> >  > 
> >  > > @Patrick:
> >  > > Any suggestion where it should move to?
> >  > 
> >  > Of the include files already included directly by arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c,
> >  > <linux/sched.h> looks the most promising.  There's lots of .*idle.* things
> >  > already in there.
> >  > 
> >  > Looking at existing precedent: ppc64 has a definition of default_idle()
> >  > in <asm/machdep.h>
> > 
> >  The question whether linux/ or asm/ is the best place for the definition 
> >  boils down to the question whether it is expected that default_idle() is 
> >  present on all architectures or whether it's an architecture-specific 
> >  implementation detail.
> 
> Yes, default_idle() is arch-specific and so its prototype should be in an
> arch-specific header.
> 
> All the implementations happen to have the same signature, so it's tempting
> to put the prototype into some generic header, but given that there's no
> non-arch-specific caller, we shouldn't do that.

ppc64 has the prototype in machdep.h.

The only other architectures that seem to require a non-static 
default_idle() are cris, i386 and ia64.

Any hint which header file would suit best?

cu
Adrian

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