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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: Microblaze Linux release
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On Monday 14 April 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 
> > One of the things I always wanted to have is a common location for all the
> > things that get duplicated verbatim into each new architecture, like all
> > the include/asm/{fcntl,ioctls,ipcbuf,mman,poll,posix_types,sem_buf}.h and
> > others that define part of the syscall ABI.
> > 
> 
> include/asm-generic

Sure. Halfway through writing my sentence, I wanted to suggest arch/generic
for the stuff in there that has the potential of being unified, but then
realized how little there is of that, and that it may just as well go into
the top-level mm/, kernel/, lib/ etc, as we have done in the past.

	Arnd <><