Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:28:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | why is it called "asm-generic/atomic.h"? |
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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?
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