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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] own header file for struct page.
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:51:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060910075154.GA8354@osiris.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609092248400.6762@scrub.home>

> > In order to get of all these problems caused by macros it seems to
> > be a good idea to get rid of them and convert them to static inline
> > functions. Because of header file include order it's necessary to have a
> > seperate header file for the struct page definition.
> > 
> > Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Patches are against git tree as of today. Better ideas welcome of course.
> > 
> >  include/linux/mm.h   |   64 --------------------------------------------
> >  include/linux/page.h |   74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
> 
> To avoid the explosion in number of small header files each containing a 
> single definition, it would be better to generally split between the 
> definitions and implementations, so IMO mm_types.h with all the structures 
> and defines from mm.h would be better.

That could be done, but I wouldn't know where to start and where to end.
Moving simply all definitions to mm_types.h doesn't seem to be a good
solution. E.g. having something like "struct shrinker" in mm_types.h
seems to be rather pointless IMHO.
Maybe we can simply leave it by just taking the struct page definition
out for now?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-10  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-08 11:17 Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-09-08 16:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-08 18:33   ` Heiko Carstens
2006-09-08 19:06     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-08 19:47       ` [patch 1/2] own header file for struct page v2 Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-09-08 19:48       ` [patch 2/2] convert s390 page handling macros to functions v2 Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-09-09 21:05 ` [patch 1/2] own header file for struct page Roman Zippel
2006-09-10  7:51   ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2006-09-10 13:07   ` [patch 1/2] own header file for struct page v3 Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-09-10 13:08   ` [patch 2/2] convert s390 page handling macros to functions v3 Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-09-10 16:25     ` Dave Hansen
2006-09-11  4:22       ` Heiko Carstens

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