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Subjectwhy is it called "asm-generic/atomic.h"?

i'm just curious -- why does that particular header file have that
name? its opening comment reads:

* Allows to provide arch independent atomic definitions without the need to
* edit all arch specific atomic.h files.

but that's *not* what that header file does. rather, it simply
defines the "long" form of the atomic operations that can be used *in
addition to* the arch-specific ones.

wouldn't it make more sense to have called that header file
something like "asm-generic/atomic_long.h", so as not to mislead folks
into thinking it represented an *alternative* to those other header
files?

rday
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