Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32

[Andrew Morton]

"Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 14:05 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > It's kinda fun playing Brian along like this ;)
> 
> A regular barrel of monkeys, indeed...
> 
> > One option is to just stick the thing in an existing lib/ or kernel/ file
> > and mark it __attribute__((weak)).  That way architectures can override it
> > for free with no ifdefs, no Makefile trickery, no Kconfig trickery, etc.
> 
> I'm easy.  Would you prefer to take that, or the Kconfig-trickery-based
> patch series I already posted earlier?
> 

Unless someone can think of a problem with attribute(weak), I think you'll
find that it's the simplest-by-far solution.
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