linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] x86, fpu: split FPU state from task struct

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Message-ID: <20080304082022.GC5689@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:20:22 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, hpa@...or.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, andi@...stfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] x86, fpu: split FPU state from task struct - v3


* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com> wrote:

> > Also this weak linkage stuff creaping in is really ugly.
> 
> hmm.. any better suggestion?

i dont find it ugly at all - it's far easier to read than an #ifdef 
maze. And the fact that it's marked "weak" is enough of a visual warning 
IMO that this is just default behavior and that the arch might have 
overriden it.

	Ingo
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