linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] auto, kbuild: flatten KBUILD

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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2023 14:15:38 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] auto, kbuild: flatten KBUILD_CFLAGS

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 01:37:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2023 18:46:42 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Make it slightly easier to see what compiler options are added and
> > removed (and not worry about column limit too!)
> 
> I wish you'd cc'ed Linus.
> 
> Turning those four upper-cased macros into upper-cased inline functions
> is just sad.  If we're going to do this we surely should go around and
> make them lower-case.

I always wanted to rewrite division functions and get rid of our
countless variants:

	q = kdiv(n, d);
	q = kdiv3(n, d, &r);

if it gets in they will be renamed again :-)