linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc: Removal of final callers using fastcall

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Message-Id: <1198218422.8584.1.camel@brick>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:27:02 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: Removal of final callers using fastcall

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 18:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:38:26 -0800 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Andrew, I'm not sure who is best to hit with these final dribs and
> > drabs removing fastcall.  Once all of these have hit Linus' tree
> > I will send a final patch deleting the include/linux/linkage.h
> > definitions as well as any remaining occurances.
> 
> Yes, that's a good approach, thanks.  Wait until the tree is fastcall-clean
> and then kill the definition(s).
> 
> I think I skipped rather a lot of remove-fastcall patches because a)
> suitable maintainers were cc'ed and b) I was going through a
> suicidal-over-bug-reports phase.
> 
> Please keep them coming - I've always disliked fastcall.

Once I see these have hit the main tree, I'll send patch getting any
more that have snuck in for the next rc.  After that there should be
few enough left that I can send you a small patch for the next rc
with the definition removal as well.

I'll keep on top of these.

Harvey



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