netdev - Re: net-2.6.24 breaks powerpc mysteriously

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Message-Id: <20071011212539.8acafc63.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:25:39 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: net-2.6.24 breaks powerpc mysteriously

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:52:14 +1000 Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> wrote:

> So Andrew, what do you think is better - arch/powerpc/boot having its
> own copies of the zlib_inflate stuff, or #ifdefs of some kind in
> lib/zlib_inflate/*.c?

The latter - copying code is evil.  Keeping the existing code dual-mode
shouldn't be too hard - it's just a matter of people knowing about it.

Perhaps such code should be in its own suitably-named directory, but
whatever.
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