linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5 -tip] x86: move common typedefs to asm/posix

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:17:25 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5 -tip] x86: move common typedefs to asm/posix_types.h

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 15:10 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 18 June 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:11:24PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > 
> > > Move common typedefs to asm/posix_types.h for easy maintenance
> > 
> > I think at this point it would be cleaner to also move the differing
> > ones into asm/posix_types.h so that there's just one file to look at for
> > the types.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> Because of the new asm-gneeric headers, you can also
> #include <asm-generic/posix_types.h> for any of the default types and
> only override the ones that are x86-specific.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 

Thanks, Arnd.

I will prepare new patch/pull-request by adding this patch.

--
JSR

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