Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267238AbUIHN3p (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:29:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266838AbUIHN1f (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:27:35 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:63655 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267709AbUIHNJX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:09:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 06:09:08 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott Wood Subject: Re: [patch] generic-hardirqs.patch, 2.6.9-rc1-bk14 Message-ID: <20040908130908.GE3106@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott Wood References: <20040908120613.GA16916@elte.hu> <20040908133445.A31267@infradead.org> <20040908124547.GA19231@elte.hu> <20040908125755.GC3106@holomorphy.com> <20040908140146.A31601@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040908140146.A31601@infradead.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 19 On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:57:55AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> It may be time for a __weak define to abbreviate __attribute__((weak)); >> we seem to use it in enough places. On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:01:46PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Personally I'm extremly unhappy with that week model for things like > this. There's no reason why architectures could implement irq handling > as inlines. Or in case of s390 not at all. If there's a question of "not at all" that probably rules out weak symbols as a method of handling it. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/