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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:29:39 +0100
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>>> 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