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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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