Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:31:34 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: "'Stephen Boyd'" <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
        "'Russell King - ARM Linux'" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        "'Arnd Bergmann'" <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Use asm-generic/sizes.h
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> > I'm hoping that kbuild gets asm-generic support sometime soon so files
> > with only a "#include <asm-generic/*>" are generated instead of living
> > in the tree. In that case I'd rather have the non power of 2 constants
> > added to the generic sizes.h and be done with it. There isn't any strong
> > technical reason to deny power of 2 constants from the generic header,
> > right?
> No.
> I just think that power-of-2 sizes are more generic, not compulsively of course.
> 
> Sam Ravnborg had introduced a patch set to provide generic support for
> architectures that using one-line asm-generic headers.

It almost ready - but my spare time has been spent on sparc lately.
Will try to take alook at it again soon.

	Sam
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