termbits.h question

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Aug 25 12:10:02 EST 2005


Becky Bruce writes:

> Can anyone explain why termbits.h in include/asm-ppc64 #includes 
> linux/posix_types.h?

At this stage, I doubt it. :)  The include was present when the ppc64
support was added to the 2.5 tree.

>   It doesn't seem to be needed by termbits.h itself, and I've 
> successfully built all the 64-bit ppc configs without the #include.  
> I'm wondering if this is historical, or if there's some other reason 
> I'm missing.

I can't see any reason why we need it.

> I'd like to merge this with the very similar 32-bit version, but I need 

Go ahead... :)

Paul.



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