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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mpm@selenic.com,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Extract kmalloc.h and slob.h from slab.h
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:11:58 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611281109150.9370@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611282104170.32289@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> I don't think <linux/slab.h> should have either but I suppose there can be 
> other (broken) headers that include it and thus its safer not to remove 
> the guard clause just yet. However, if you wrap the include of 
> <linux/kmalloc.h> header inside the existing guard then we should be fine, 
> no?

There could be other header files used by user space where we would want 
to switch from slab.h to kmalloc.h in the future. All three header files 
are pretty low level and so we will have frequent includes. I think it is 
safer to have the guard in there.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-28 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-28  6:33 Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28  8:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-11-28 18:05   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28 19:07     ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-11-28 19:11       ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2006-11-28 19:19         ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-11-28 19:24           ` Pekka Enberg
2006-11-28 19:27             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28 19:25           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-28 19:32             ` Pekka Enberg
2006-11-28 19:53               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29  0:30               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29  7:08                 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-11-29 19:18                   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29  8:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29  8:38   ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 19:24     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30  1:58       ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30  2:43         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30  3:04           ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30  3:39             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30  3:44               ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30  3:50                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30  4:18                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30  4:28                     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-30  5:01                       ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30  7:12         ` Pekka Enberg

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