linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] Replace some ARCH_HAS

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Date:	Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:05:11 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@...l.org>,
	torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Replace some ARCH_HAS_XYZZY

On Monday 07 August 2006 23:13, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > The whole "ARCH_HAS_XYZZY" is nothing but crap. It's totally unreadable, 
> ...
> > WE SHOULD GET RID OF ARCH_HAS_XYZZY. It's a disease.
> 
> Using Kconfig symbols for some of them seems more appropriate to me,

IMHO that's no better.

Instead one should add dummy inlines/macros or asm-generic dummy inlines/macros
to all the architectures.

-Andi
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