linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm -v3] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0810061047440.5594@anakin>
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:48:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v3] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h
 into asm/atomic_def.h

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Huang Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> 
> asm/atomic.h contains both declaration and implementation of atomic_t.  So
> there are some implementation related files included in asm/atomic.h.  And
> atomic_t is a typedef.  Combination of above makes it impossible to use
> atomic_t in files included by atomic.h.  Such as atomic_t can not be used
> in linux/kernel.h on i386, because it is included by asm/atomic.h.
> 
> It is reasonable to separate declaration from implementation.  So a new
> file atomic_def.h is added for every architecture to accommodate the
> declaration of atomic_t.

And how many of these atomic_def.h are identical?
asm-generic?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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