Re: [PATCH 0/9] Replace some ARCH_HAS_XYZZY

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 22:11:03 EST


On Monday 07 August 2006 23:13, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > The whole "ARCH_HAS_XYZZY" is nothing but crap. It's totally unreadable,
> ...
> > WE SHOULD GET RID OF ARCH_HAS_XYZZY. It's a disease.
>
> Using Kconfig symbols for some of them seems more appropriate to me,

IMHO that's no better.

Instead one should add dummy inlines/macros or asm-generic dummy inlines/macros
to all the architectures.

-Andi
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