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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:22:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> Cc: Martin Peschke <mp3@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc3-mm1: __attribute__((weak)) considered harmful On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:14:25 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote: > statistics-infrastructure-make-printk_clock-a-generic-kernel-wide-nsec-resolution.patch > shows why __attribute__((weak)) is harmful because you don't see if a > required non-weak implemtation is missing: > > In this case, the weak printk_clock() was renamed to timestamp_clock(), > but the ARM and i386 implementations weren't renamed... > printk_clock() is sched_clock() in disguise, and I'm not sure that making sched_clock() more widely available in this fashion is something that we want to do anyway. Anyway, the statistics patches have just celebrated their first birthday and I don't see that they're getting sufficient momentum or interest to ever get into mainline so I think I'll drop them, sorry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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