Re: [git pull -tip] headers_check fixes for other architectures

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 04:56:24PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Taking this further, if you're including linux/types.h into another
> > header file, you're including it because you want some C type from
> > that or an included file.  Use of that type is also not ASM friendly,
> > so the use is going to have to be excluded by ifndef in that header.
> 
> There's a ton of header files that can be included in assembly code and 
> which also contain C declarations and definitions. This is achieved by 
> adding a:
> 
>  #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>  #endif
> 
> Blocks around the C code. Especially for smallish or single-purpose files 
> this is often a cleaner method than splitting the file.

Err, yes, thank you for justifying my point.

And no, I didn't say anything about splitting files.  Not sure why you
brought that up.
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