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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, rdreier@cisco.com, sam@ravnborg.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:32:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060110153257.1aac5370.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136932162.6294.31.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com>

"Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 14:05 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > It's kinda fun playing Brian along like this ;)
> 
> A regular barrel of monkeys, indeed...
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm easy.  Would you prefer to take that, or the Kconfig-trickery-based
> patch series I already posted earlier?
> 

Unless someone can think of a problem with attribute(weak), I think you'll
find that it's the simplest-by-far solution.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-10 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-06 20:26 [PATCH 0 of 3] 32-bit MMIO copy routine Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-06 20:26 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10  9:18   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-10 14:55     ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-10 16:07       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 16:56         ` [PATCH] [RFC] Generic 32-bit MMIO copy, out of line Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 17:07         ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-10 17:13           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 17:49           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 17:51             ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-10 17:55               ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 22:05                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-10 22:29                   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 23:32                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-11 17:20                       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 17:22                         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-11 17:30                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 17:43                             ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 18:49                               ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-11 18:57                                 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 19:01                                   ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-11 19:08                                     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-13 15:19                       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-10 18:02               ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-10 20:04         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-10 15:59     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-06 20:26 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] memcpy32 for x86_64 Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-06 20:26 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] Add __raw_memcpy_toio32 to each arch Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 19:53 [PATCH 0 of 3] 32-bit MMIO copy routines, reworked Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 22:39 [PATCH 0 of 3] MMIO 32-bit copy routine, the final frontier Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 22:39 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-11 23:43   ` Andrew Morton
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2006-01-15 15:33                   ` Bodo Eggert

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