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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor fixes to generic do_div
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:49:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061019224949.37a12fda.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061020053638.GS2602@parisc-linux.org>

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:36:38 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:59:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Can we use typecheck(), from include/linux/kernel.h?
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> It's copied and pasted from down below, so possibly this was
> intentionally not used.  or possibly the author didn't know about
> typecheck().

or typecheck() was added afterwards.

One could create a typecheck.h.  Or a handy-macros.h whose mandate is
"macros which don't depend on any other headers".

Or just include kernel.h in div64.h.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20  3:34 [PATCH] Minor fixes to generic do_div Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-20  4:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-20  5:36   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-20  5:49     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-23  7:49 ` Paul Mackerras

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