Re: [PATCH] x86: add 'runtime constant' infrastructure

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 at 13:16, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I just had an idea how to clearly make this type-safe as a benefit.

You mean exactly like my patch already is, because I use the section name?

Christ people. I am throwing down the gauntlet: if you can't make a
patch that actually *improves* on what I already posted, don't even
bother.

The whole "it doesn't scale" is crazy talk. We don't want hundreds -
much less thousands - of these things. Using one named section for
each individual constant is a *good* thing.

So really: take a good hard look at that final

  [PATCH 3/7] x86: add 'runtime constant' support

at

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240610204821.230388-4-torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

and only if you can *improve* on it by making it smaller or somehow
actually better.

Seriously. There's one line in that patch that really says it all:

 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+)

and that's with basically optimal code generation. Improve on *THAT*.

No more of this pointless bikeshedding with arguments that make no
actual technical sense.

             Linus