Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932682AbVLRJdi (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:33:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932694AbVLRJdi (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:33:38 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:39910 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932682AbVLRJdi (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:33:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:33:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20051218.013341.34772534.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@osdl.org Cc: rjwalsh@pathscale.com, rolandd@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] [RFC] ipath copy routines From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20051217191932.af2b422c.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20051217123833.1aa430ab.akpm@osdl.org> <1134859243.20575.84.camel@phosphene.durables.org> <20051217191932.af2b422c.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 803 Lines: 19 From: Andrew Morton Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:19:32 -0800 > That would make sense. Give it a non-ipath-related name and require that > all architectures which wish to run this driver must implement that > (documented) function. > > And, in Kconfig, make sure that architectures which don't implement that > library function do not attempt to build this driver. To avoid breaking > `make allmodconfig'. How about we implement a portable version in C that you get by default if you don't implement the assembler routine? Pretty please? :-) - 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/