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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:38:28 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [git pull] sparseirq / irq updates for v2.6.29
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Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> 1. one time path add one dummy printk
> 2. multi path, could move it to another file.
> could add one like kernel/weak.c to collect those ...
> 

I had a silly thought about scanning the source code for some kind of
magic declarator that would then be collected into a master weak symbol
dummy function kind of file.  It really seems more trouble than it's
worth; we don't have *that* many weaks in the kernel, not all of them
are trivial, and that way it's better to keep them as close as we can to
the point of usage.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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