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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702260442160.15535@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>
Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:44:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove redundant #ifdef __KERNEL__ checks.

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   Remove the redundant intermediate checks for __KERNEL__ since, as
> > soon as one ends, the next one starts.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com>
> >
>
> However, what's much worse is that this already has put series of
> constants which are part of the ABI under __KERNEL__.  This is a
> very bad thing.

i'm sure i'm just being dense but i have no clue what you're referring
to.  AFAICT, that patch simply removed some redundant preprocessor
directives.  am i missing something?

rday

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