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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] unify all architecture PAGE_SIZE definitions
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:14:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060825001459.GE3580@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156464441.12011.151.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:58 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> You can't be serious.
>> Stuffing incomplete tables of logarithms in mm/Kconfig is not the way.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:07:21PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> It may be crazy, but it is crazy enough for at least three architectures
> to do it this way, already.  I'd rather consolidate the insanity all in
> one place than have it spread far and wide.  Have a gander at
> arch/{parisc,ia64,sparc64}/Kconfig.
> I'd be glad to fill make the table more complete if it helps.  Do you
> have any ideas how it might be done more elegantly?

With CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT there doesn't need to be a CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE at
all; just let #define PAGE_SIZE (1 << PAGE_SHIFT) handle it.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-25  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-24 23:44 [RFC][PATCH] unify all architecture PAGE_SIZE definitions Dave Hansen
2006-08-24 23:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-08-25  0:07   ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-25  0:14     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2006-08-25  0:23       ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-25  0:32         ` William Lee Irwin III
2006-08-25  8:12           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-08-25  5:31 ` Paul Mundt
2006-08-25 15:03   ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-26  1:17     ` Paul Mundt
2006-08-25 21:04   ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-25  8:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-08-25 14:55   ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-25 15:07     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-08-25 17:16 ` David Howells
2006-08-25 17:31   ` Dave Hansen
2006-09-11  0:51 ` Jeff Dike
2006-09-11 17:33   ` Dave Hansen
2006-09-11 18:43   ` Dave Hansen
2006-09-11 23:40     ` Jeff Dike
2006-09-11 13:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-09-11 17:43   ` Dave Hansen
     [not found] <BFECAF9E178F144FAEF2BF4CE739C66804016FA5@exmail1.se.axis.com>
2006-08-25  5:04 ` Mikael Starvik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-25 16:06 Luck, Tony

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