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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] runtime platform detection in GENERIC kernels
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:49:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705808@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705791@msgid-missing>

>>>>> "Alex" = Alex Williamson <alex_williamson@hp.com> writes:

Alex>    Why not just make a runtime strcmp to platform_name?  Then
Alex> you could make a generic is_platform("sn2") type function/macro
Alex> that everyone could use and you'd get rid of that nasty init
Alex> function.  If you realy need to make such a check in a perfmance
Alex> path, it should probably be a machvec.  Thanks,

Hi Alex,

I think the main reason for this was to cache the strcmp result in an
integer to make it faster.

Cheers,
Jes


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-14 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-14 15:03 [Linux-ia64] runtime platform detection in GENERIC kernels Martin Hicks
2003-05-14 15:32 ` Alex Williamson
2003-05-14 15:47 ` Martin Hicks
2003-05-14 20:49 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2003-05-16 19:21 ` Martin Hicks
2003-05-16 19:35 ` Alex Williamson
2003-05-20 19:56 ` Martin Hicks

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