From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:29:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC5BE83020000780001EFE4@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=mpKRQgZp5zCoCsBtkuWHrpkOq2Zch-OOGu4CC@mail.gmail.com>
>>> On 25.10.10 at 17:17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> How about just removing the idiotic workaround entirely, and then on
> x86 passing "-traditional" to cpp for asm input so that it doesn't add
> spaces in argument expansion? Make the workaround more targeted to the
> actual problem, rather than working around it in some unrelated
> thing..
Hmm, I think it was an actual improvement to remove the use of
-traditional. If fiddling with the globally used sed expression isn't
considered acceptable, how about allowing the architecture to
override it as necessary?
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-25 14:02 [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets David Howells
2010-10-25 14:34 ` Jan Beulich
2010-10-25 14:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-25 14:54 ` David Howells
2010-10-25 15:05 ` Jan Beulich
2010-10-25 15:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-25 15:29 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2010-10-25 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-25 16:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-25 16:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-26 10:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-26 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-26 17:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-25 15:59 ` David Howells
2010-10-25 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-31 15:29 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2010-11-02 8:30 ` Ming Lei
2010-11-02 10:19 ` Alexander van Heukelum
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