Re: PATCH 2.5.4 i810_audio, bttv, working at all.

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 22:43:56 EST


On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > But I'd like to see resulting epic100.tmpl ;-).
>
> When you have to maintain more than 10 "cookie cutter" net drivers that
> are 80-90% the same, you start to want such extremes :)

It's not necessarily a bad idea to have a more capable preprocessor than
the C preprocessor. I've cursed preprocessor limitations before, and I
there was some discussion about using m4 several years ago (and I mean
_several_ years ago - if I were to guess I'd say 6-8 years ago..).

                Linus

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