Re: [PATCH -mm -v5] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.hinto asm/atomic_def.h

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Oct 15 2008 - 18:32:21 EST


On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:19:48 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 03:11:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:47:19 -0600
> > Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Roman Zippel did me one better and suggested just putting it in types.h,
> > > which works for me.
> >
> > OK. Or we could do the usual include/asm-generic/atomic_types.h and
> > then architectures can choose to include that if it is appropriate.
> >
> > Anyway the good news is that this concept is an addition to rather than
> > a replacement of this current patch.
>
> Um, no. Roman and I are against the creation of a new file. Just put
> the atomic_t definition in <linux/types.h>.

Well we've been glacially fartarsing around with this for sufficiently
long that any such alterations will be too late for 2.6.28.

I'll drop it all. Again.
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