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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:49:49 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor fixes to generic do_div
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:36:38 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:59:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Can we use typecheck(), from include/linux/kernel.h?
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> It's copied and pasted from down below, so possibly this was
> intentionally not used.  or possibly the author didn't know about
> typecheck().

or typecheck() was added afterwards.

One could create a typecheck.h.  Or a handy-macros.h whose mandate is
"macros which don't depend on any other headers".

Or just include kernel.h in div64.h.