linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] Added macro to check for AVX2 feature.

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Date:	Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:55:38 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	"David S.Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Kirk Yap <kirk.s.yap@...el.com>,
	David Cote <david.m.cote@...el.com>,
	James Guilford <james.guilford@...el.com>,
	Wajdi Feghali <wajdi.k.feghali@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] Added macro to check for AVX2 feature.

Just syntactic overhead.  We should probably discuss it among ourselves first though.

Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 17:21 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I really, really hate these macros... Not sure they are worth the
>extra noise.
>> 
>
>I can do without the macro and I'll remove it.
>
>Wonder the reason that such macro should be avoided?
>
>Tim

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