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To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:28:33 -0500
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca> wrote:

> > Is it really that hard to do the switch in architecture specific code?
> 
> Yes, because I loathe the code duplication I'm seeing in all the arch
> directories. Please don't tell me that it's more maintainable that way.

It's about 5 lines of code. Not really a big issue. The bulk will be 
shared.

> IMO, and I am not granted a crystal ball, the situation could be made
> cleaner through:

[...]

Not sure what this has to do with the issue at hand of adding an is_compat_task()
or not. I have no great opinion on fs/compat et.al vs arch/generic, filenames
really don't concern me.

-Andi