Re: [PATCH 1/3] hugetlbfs: architecture header cleanup

[Heiko Carstens]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:42:56AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 16:26 +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> > 
> >  include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h    |   21 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/asm-ia64/page.h       |    6 -----
> >  include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/asm-powerpc/page_64.h |    7 ------
> >  include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h      |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h |   30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/asm-sparc64/page.h    |    2 -
> >  include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h     |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/hugetlb.h       |   46 ------------------------------------------
> 
> The way I read this, you took some arch-independent bits, like
> prepare_hugepage_range(), and copied them to several architectures.  How
> is this a cleanup?  Can they really not share common code? 

This question has been raised before. See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/28/267 .
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