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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: net-2.6.24 breaks powerpc mysteriously
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:25:39 -0700
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:52:14 +1000 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> So Andrew, what do you think is better - arch/powerpc/boot having its
> own copies of the zlib_inflate stuff, or #ifdefs of some kind in
> lib/zlib_inflate/*.c?


The latter - copying code is evil.  Keeping the existing code dual-mode
shouldn't be too hard - it's just a matter of people knowing about it.

Perhaps such code should be in its own suitably-named directory, but
whatever.