On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Anybody want to look at just getting rid of the gperf use?

I took a stab at it. It wasn't too bad, although I think this needs a
*lot* of testing, and I think it needs checking of Makefile
dependencies etc.

NOTE NOTE NOTE! This may be *COMPLETELY* broken. It just happens to
build for me.  So when I say "it wasn't too bad", I really mean "it
wasn't too bad, but I didn't spend a lot of effort on it either".

Honestly, the code is better and more legible without gperf, imho. And
it removes more lines than it adds - and even if you ignore changes to
the shipped lines, it's only an additional 15 lines of code,

It's likely not even any slower, but who the hell knows.. Do we even
care? It's almost certainly faster if you compare to generating that
gperf code.

              Linus