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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	bryan.wu@analog.com, dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] AVR32: cleanup - use _AC macro to define PAGE_SIZE
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 17:04:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080203140419.GB11983@cvg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080203142506.2003e5cf@siona>

[Haavard Skinnemoen - Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:25:06PM +0100]
| [removed bogus @atmel.co address from Cc]
| 
| On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:22:18 +0300
| Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
| 
| > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
| 
| Applied, thanks.
| 
| I found myself having to grep through include/linux to figure out what
| this _AC macro was really all about, so I added this to the description:
| 
|     PAGE_SIZE is used both from assembly and C code. We want to have type
|     specifiers when using it from C, but this will make the assembler
|     confused, so we need to make it conditional.
|     
|     This is exactly what the _AC macro is for, so using it allows us to
|     get rid of a few lines of cpp noise.
| 
| My first thought was "Autoconf", and it sent shivers down my spine ;-)
| 
| Haavard
| 

Thanks, Haavard. (btw, really good joke about Autoconf ;-)

		- Cyrill -

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-03 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080203112217.126814108@gmail.com>
2008-02-03 11:22 ` [patch 1/4] AVR32: cleanup - use _AC macro to define PAGE_SIZE Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-03 13:25   ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-02-03 14:04     ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2008-02-03 11:22 ` [patch 2/4] BLACKFIN: " Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-03 11:22 ` [patch 3/4] FRV: " Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-03 11:22 ` [patch 4/4] SPARC: " Cyrill Gorcunov

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