From: alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk (Alan Jenkins)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] ARM: remove references to non-existent fastfpe
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:41:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD048A4.1070805@tuffmail.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091009165513.GA5902@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:02:20PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
>> # Do we have FASTFPE?
>> FASTFPE :=arch/arm/fastfpe
>> ifeq ($(FASTFPE),$(wildcard $(FASTFPE)))
>> FASTFPE_OBJ :=$(FASTFPE)/
>> endif
>> fastfpe
>>
>> We don't have FASTFPE. If this code still exists out of tree, it can
>> surely maintain its own Makefile and Kconfig entries. Let's not confuse
>> users by allowing them to select FASTFPE, and then silently not building
>> it.
>>
>
> The code is not maintained anymore, but can just be slotted in (as per
> the recent request on the mailing list.) I'd rather not have the
> hastle of maintaining fastfpe patches thank you.
>
Urk. The fine balancing act of limbo. Another possibility would be to
provide a stub
#error "fastfpe not included; disable it or download it"
But if you want to just leave it, that's obviously your decision to make.
Regards
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-10 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 14:02 [PATCH 1/6] ARM: remove unused declaration of fpundefinstr Alan Jenkins
2009-10-09 14:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] ARM: remove out of date comment Alan Jenkins
2009-10-09 14:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] ARM: update Kconfig help text for floating point Alan Jenkins
2009-10-09 14:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] ARM: remove references to non-existent fastfpe Alan Jenkins
2009-10-09 16:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-10-10 8:41 ` Alan Jenkins [this message]
2009-10-14 18:21 ` Peter Teichmann
2009-10-14 19:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-10-14 20:33 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-10-09 14:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] ARM: nwfpe can no longer be built as a module - remove dead code (part 1 of 2) Alan Jenkins
2009-10-09 14:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] ARM: newfpe can no longer be compiled as a module - cleanup (part 2 " Alan Jenkins
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