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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v5] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:49:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081010214958.GA7708@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081010144335.65d8153b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:44:30 +0800
> Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> > 
> > asm/atomic.h contains both declaration and implementation of atomic_t.  So
> > there are some implementation related files included in asm/atomic.h.  And
> > atomic_t is a typedef.  Combination of above makes it impossible to use
> > atomic_t in files included by atomic.h.  Such as atomic_t can not be used
> > in linux/kernel.h on i386, because it is included by asm/atomic.h.
> > 
> > It is reasonable to separate declaration from implementation.  So a new
> > file atomic_types.h is added for every architecture to accommodate the
> > declaration of atomic_t.
> > 
> > Includes fixes from Andrew Moton.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> The difference between what-i-currently-have and what-you-just-sent is
> below.  It's quite large.
> 
> Can you explain this update please?

i've been giving review feedback to make it all fit into existing 
namespace concepts better. Should have no change in functionality. (But 
i have not tested it)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08  9:44 [PATCH -mm -v5] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h Huang Ying
2008-10-10 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-10 21:49   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-10 22:54     ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-14 18:47       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-15 22:11         ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-15 22:19           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-15 22:31             ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-18  4:00               ` Matthew Wilcox

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