Re: [2.6 patch] kill include/linux/platform.h

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:07:12PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
>  > > The default_idle() prototype should stay inside some header file.
>  > 
>  > That would be best, yes.
>  > 
>  > > @Patrick:
>  > > Any suggestion where it should move to?
>  > 
>  > Of the include files already included directly by arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c,
>  > <linux/sched.h> looks the most promising.  There's lots of .*idle.* things
>  > already in there.
>  > 
>  > Looking at existing precedent: ppc64 has a definition of default_idle()
>  > in <asm/machdep.h>
> 
>  The question whether linux/ or asm/ is the best place for the definition 
>  boils down to the question whether it is expected that default_idle() is 
>  present on all architectures or whether it's an architecture-specific 
>  implementation detail.

Yes, default_idle() is arch-specific and so its prototype should be in an
arch-specific header.

All the implementations happen to have the same signature, so it's tempting
to put the prototype into some generic header, but given that there's no
non-arch-specific caller, we shouldn't do that.