linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/20] x86_64: Assembly safe page.h and pgtable.h

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Message-ID: <m1d53k8dkx.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:16:30 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	vgoyal@...ibm.com
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Reloc Kernel List <fastboot@...ts.osdl.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ak@...e.de, hpa@...or.com,
	magnus.damm@...il.com, lwang@...hat.com, dzickus@...hat.com,
	pavel@...e.cz, rjw@...k.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/20] x86_64: Assembly safe page.h and pgtable.h

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com> writes:

> Hi Sam,
>
> Thanks for the review. This makes sense to me. Move const.h into
> asm-generic and let everybody use it.
>
> This is more of a small cleanup issue and involves changing few header files
> in asm-sparc64 and make sure nothing is broken on sparc64. This patchset
> is already becoming big and complex. Is it ok if we let the patch 
> remain unmodified for now and once this gets in and settles down, I can
> post another patch to do above modification?

Actually unless there is a reason not to, we can probably move this
into include/linux instead of include/asm-generic.  I don't see anything
in that header file that is architecture specific in any way.  Except
that it happens to only be used in architecture specific code.

Eric
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