linux-kernel - Re: [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile_

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Message-ID: <20070619041527.GA7224@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:15:27 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	rmk@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:00:09PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Do you imply that if we see asm or __asm__ in user space headers we ougth
> to warn about it?
> Seems at least sensible to me but if we introduce such a check we should
> kill all offenders first - which Mike's patches seems to trigger for some part.

Yes, we should kill the offenders first.  Some of Mike's patches are moving
nicely in that directions.  The biggest problem from my POV is byteawap.h
that gets dragged in in various places right now and needs to be sorted out.

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