Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:31:24 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, ying.huang@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v5] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h
 into asm/atomic_def.h
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:19:48 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 03:11:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:47:19 -0600
> > Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> > > Roman Zippel did me one better and suggested just putting it in types.h,
> > > which works for me.
> > 
> > OK.  Or we could do the usual include/asm-generic/atomic_types.h and
> > then architectures can choose to include that if it is appropriate.
> > 
> > Anyway the good news is that this concept is an addition to rather than
> > a replacement of this current patch.
> 
> Um, no.  Roman and I are against the creation of a new file.  Just put
> the atomic_t definition in <linux/types.h>.

Well we've been glacially fartarsing around with this for sufficiently
long that any such alterations will be too late for 2.6.28.

I'll drop it all.  Again.
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