linux-kernel - Re: Pageflags: Standardize comment inclusion in asm-offsets.h and fix MIPS

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Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:58:47 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pageflags: Standardize comment inclusion in asm-offsets.h and fix MIPS

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:43:08AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Add the ability to pass comments into asm-offsets.h by generating asm
> output like
> 
> -># comment line
> 
> Mips needs this feature to preserve the comments that are in asm-mips/asm-offsets.h
> right now.
> 
> Then remove the special handling for mips from Kbuild and convert mips to use
> the new string to include the comments.
> 
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

My sedfu is not enough to properly review this.
And I am not yet able to test it.

But the general principle is good and I really like to see mips
aligned with the rest!

	Sam
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