netdev - Re: [PATCH] lto, wan/sbni: Make inline assembler symbols visible and assembler global

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Date:	Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:09:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andi@...stfloor.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ak@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lto, wan/sbni: Make inline assembler symbols visible
 and assembler global

From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 01:05:35 +0200

> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 03:33:23PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
>> Date: Mon,  5 Aug 2013 15:18:14 -0700
>> 
>> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
>> > 
>> > - Inline assembler defining C callable code has to be global
>> > - The function has to be visible
>> > 
>> > Do this in wan/sbni
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
>> 
>> Please just make it use the standard lib/ CRC routines instead.
> 
> The problem is I don't have this hardware, and I don't think
> I can do such a change without testing it.

I say you can, having assembly in here for something as fundamental
as this is pointless.
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