Re: [RFC] Introduce atomic_long_t

Andi Kleen
2005-12-09T22:20:47Z

> I'd say the sequence is:
> 1. create an linux/atomic.h the #include's asm/atomic.h
> 2. convert all asm/atomic.h to use linux/atomic.h
> 3. move common code to linux/atomic.h

I don't think there is much common code actually. atomic_t
details vary widly between architectures. Just defining
a few macros to others is really not significant. I think
Christoph's original patch was just fine.

-Andi