From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>,
       hch@infradead.org, rdreier@cisco.com, sam@ravnborg.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:33:51 +0100
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> One option is to just stick the thing in an existing lib/ or kernel/ file
> and mark it __attribute__((weak)).  That way architectures can override it
> for free with no ifdefs, no Makefile trickery, no Kconfig trickery, etc.

What about "#define funcname funcname" in arch-specific headers iff it's
redefined, and protecting the definition in the generic file by "#ifndef
funcname"?
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