Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751031AbWHHCFS (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751206AbWHHCFS (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:05:18 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37597 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751031AbWHHCFQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:05:16 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Replace some ARCH_HAS_XYZZY Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:05:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: lkml , akpm , torvalds References: <20060807141328.4d9c2a72.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20060807141328.4d9c2a72.rdunlap@xenotime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608080405.11111.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 728 Lines: 22 On Monday 07 August 2006 23:13, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [snip] > > > The whole "ARCH_HAS_XYZZY" is nothing but crap. It's totally unreadable, > ... > > WE SHOULD GET RID OF ARCH_HAS_XYZZY. It's a disease. > > Using Kconfig symbols for some of them seems more appropriate to me, IMHO that's no better. Instead one should add dummy inlines/macros or asm-generic dummy inlines/macros to all the architectures. -Andi - 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/