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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven.noonan@uplinklabs.net>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:30:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C40191.8070208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C38571.7060808@knaff.lu>

Alain Knaff wrote:
> 
> Could you elaborate please?
> 

At a brief glance, there is an awful lot of #ifdefs in that code, a lot 
of which look unnecessary.  #ifdefs make the code hard to read, and 
usually signify that additional abstractions are called for.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-07 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-06 21:19 [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds Alain Knaff
2008-09-06 22:29 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-09-06 22:59   ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-07  6:17     ` Rob Landley
2008-09-08  8:35       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 13:14       ` Jörn Engel
2008-09-07  3:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-07  4:35   ` Steven Noonan
2008-09-07  4:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-07  7:40       ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-07 16:30         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-09-07  7:39   ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-07  8:03     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-07  9:17       ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-07  5:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-09-07  8:59   ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-15  1:37   ` Rob Landley
2008-09-15 12:46     ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2008-09-15 17:13       ` Bill Davidsen
2008-09-15 17:28         ` Steven Noonan
2008-09-26 18:53           ` Leon Woestenberg

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