linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] sparseirq / irq updates for v2.6.29

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Message-ID: <49581C04.5040207@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:38:28 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] sparseirq / irq updates for v2.6.29

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> 1. one time path add one dummy printk
> 2. multi path, could move it to another file.
> could add one like kernel/weak.c to collect those ...
> 

I had a silly thought about scanning the source code for some kind of
magic declarator that would then be collected into a master weak symbol
dummy function kind of file.  It really seems more trouble than it's
worth; we don't have *that* many weaks in the kernel, not all of them
are trivial, and that way it's better to keep them as close as we can to
the point of usage.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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