Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 08:39:29 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.org.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [EVIL-PATCH] getting rid of lib/lib.a and breaking many archs in the processes (was Re: [PATCH] fixed: CRC32=y && 8193TOO=m unresolved symbols)
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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 05:33:21PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Is it a good idea to make the archs themselves include the generic implementation if they don't do it themselves? Or is there a way to detect this in the build system (this would be more elegant, but I have no idea how to do it).

You can always add a HAVE_ARCH_FOO #define.  Btw, we have so many
of those these days that an <asm/config.h> for them might be a better
choice than polluting random other header.  Opinions?

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