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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:09:33 -0400
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Consistently use the name asm-offsets.h
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To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Luck, Tony wrote:
> The existing ia64 specific rule to generate offsets.h
> has to "echo #define IA64_TASK_SIZE 0 > include/asm-ia64/offsets.h"
> before building asm-offsets.s to avoid compilation errors.
> 
> So long as you take care of this somehow in the generic version, go wild.
> 

The right fix is to get rid of that god-awful circular dependency on 
offset.h

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				Brian Gerst