linux-kernel - why is it called "asm-generic/atomic.h"?

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:28:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: why is it called "asm-generic/atomic.h"?

  i'm just curious -- why does that particular header file have that
name?  its opening comment reads:

 * Allows to provide arch independent atomic definitions without the need to
 * edit all arch specific atomic.h files.

but that's *not* what that header file does.  rather, it simply
defines the "long" form of the atomic operations that can be used *in
addition to* the arch-specific ones.

  wouldn't it make more sense to have called that header file
something like "asm-generic/atomic_long.h", so as not to mislead folks
into thinking it represented an *alternative* to those other header
files?

rday
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