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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:16:05 +0200
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [rfc, patch] allow timer interrupt to be shared.
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Philippe Gerum wrote:
 > I'd rather keep the number of obscure conditional macros as low as
 > possible; we should actually try to reduce them since we have a growing
 > number of real and pseudo-archs to support, and those macros tend to
 > obfuscate the generic code.
 > 
 > In the same vein, is there anything we could use in the compatible Adeos
 > patch that would unambiguously identify the presence of such support
 > without resorting to yet-another-macro like IPIPE_HAVE_SHARED_TIMER_IRQ?

We could decide that ipipe_timer_irq_p() must be implemented as a macro,
and use #ifdef ipipe_timer_irq_p but I thought that #ifdef
IPIPE_HAVE_SHARED_TIMER_IRQ was easier to understand.

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					    Gilles Chanteperdrix.