On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:33:46 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > You can also go totally mad and generate the whole function (both -s and > non -s variants) from one macro but I wouldn't go that far :-)
Please don't (unless you keep the function names intact), it makes finding the function with grep almost impossible ... > > Also - any opinion on whether the same re-factoring of the asm-generic > > versions should be undertaken? I'm not looking to bite off more than I > > can chew, but I don't know if it's frowned upon to make powerpc-only > > extensions to the API. And if you think an asm-generic patch makes > > sense, could that be taken via linuxppc-dev too or does it need to go > > elsewhere? > > I'm not people care -that- much :-) You can always try and post it to > lkml (maybe linux-arch too) and see what comes back... but let's finish > the powerpc variant first :-) Also, we have an asm-generic maintainer now ... -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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