linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets

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Date:	Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:29:39 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	"David Howells" <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	<linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h
	 numbers in brackets

>>> On 25.10.10 at 17:17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> How about just removing the idiotic workaround entirely, and then on
> x86 passing "-traditional" to cpp for asm input so that it doesn't add
> spaces in argument expansion? Make the workaround more targeted to the
> actual problem, rather than working around it in some unrelated
> thing..

Hmm, I think it was an actual improvement to remove the use of
-traditional. If fiddling with the globally used sed expression isn't
considered acceptable, how about allowing the architecture to
override it as necessary?

Jan

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