Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965257AbVLRTwO (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:52:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965258AbVLRTwO (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:52:14 -0500 Received: from lame.durables.org ([64.81.244.120]:21678 "EHLO calliope.durables.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965257AbVLRTwN (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:52:13 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] [RFC] ipath copy routines From: Robert Walsh To: "David S. Miller" Cc: akpm@osdl.org, rolandd@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org In-Reply-To: <20051218.013341.34772534.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20051217123833.1aa430ab.akpm@osdl.org> <1134859243.20575.84.camel@phosphene.durables.org> <20051217191932.af2b422c.akpm@osdl.org> <20051218.013341.34772534.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:52:05 -0800 Message-Id: <1134935525.5826.0.camel@phosphene.durables.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1004 Lines: 26 > > 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? :-) Sure. :-) -- Robert Walsh Email: rjwalsh@pathscale.com PathScale, Inc. Phone: +1 650 934 8117 2071 Stierlin Court, Suite 200 Fax: +1 650 428 1969 Mountain View, CA 94043. - 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/