netdev - Re: net-2.6.24 breaks powerpc mysteriously

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Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:54:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	paulus@...ba.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, sam@...nborg.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: net-2.6.24 breaks powerpc mysteriously

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:25:39 -0700

> 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.

I'll work on a fix for this.
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