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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>,
	Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>,
	linux-kernel-mail <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question:Bsearch replace the search_extable implementations
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:29:17 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjtnyuai.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7N6vokZpFJkYapajhqTYWvPVWr6ELz+5Nq9yvf0J5VAx=JBA@mail.gmail.com>

anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello Rusty,
>
> Right now I see so many places in the kernel
> where we open code binary search implementations
> such as search_extable implementations.
>
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?a=powerpc;i=search_extable
>
> Would it be ok to replace this with bsearch lib code?
>
> I am not trying to fix any problem nor I see
> any problem in current implementations but
> if we can replace the large amount of code
> would it not be a good reason to send a patch
> for this?

It should be fine, yes.

Thanks!
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-16  5:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-15  6:18 Question:Bsearch replace the search_extable implementations anish singh
2013-07-16  4:59 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-07-16  5:51   ` anish singh

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