linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Virtual methods for devices and generalized GPIO support using it

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:08:57 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Virtual methods for devices and generalized GPIO support
 using it

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> 
>      By this criteria I happened to choose macros syntax. But it's still
> merely a syntax, and I don't pledge for it. If there's more movement
> towards using explicit low-level forms like 1) or 2) instead of
> introducing new syntactic pattern, then macro syntax can be considered
> to have fulfilled its introductory role and can be dropped.
> 

"Movement towards?!"  That's been a fundamental part of Linux design 
since the very beginning.

	-hpa
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