Hi, Geert,

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 10:48 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Huang Ying wrote:
> > From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.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?

Most of them are identical. But <asm/atomic_def.h> will be a public API,
included by not only <asm/atomic.h> but also <linux/xxx.h>. I don't know
how to put it in asm-generic.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying