netdev - Re: [PATCH 9/15] BE NIC driver - Linux system abstraction files

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 13:33:05 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"Subbu Seetharaman" <subbus@...verengines.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/15] BE NIC driver - Linux system abstraction files

"Subbu Seetharaman" <subbus@...verengines.com> writes:
> + */
> +/*
> + * system abstraction functions / macros for Linux

Sorry, pretty much this complete file has to go and the callers 
be fixed to use the native Linux functions directly. Some of it
was even wrong, like it's not legal to cast atomic_t like you did.

Also a lot of facilities you reimplement here exist already in Linux
anyways under other names.

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Hmm was i even allowed to read it?

-Andi
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