Re: [PATCH] AES i586 optimized, regparm fixed

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 08:20:42 EST


On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:07:24PM +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:
> The patch posted yesterday has had an issue with CONFIG_REGPARM. The
> following patch corrects this issue and works for both cases
> CONFIG_REGPARM=y||n. Thanks to Christophe Saout, who pointed out the
> solution almost instantly. The patch does not apply Christophe's patch, but
> rather forces the interface back to regparm(0).

We usually use asmlinkage instead of __attribute__((regparm(0))). while
it's not nessecary for x86-specific code to abstract this out it at least
looks cleaner. BTW, is the assembly code shared with some other project?
If not it might be a good idea to kill the ifdefs in there.

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