Re: ia64 circular dependency on asm-offsets.h

Sam Ravnborg
2005-09-13T20:02:50Z

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:02:15AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> I am not proud of this patch (but Linus has already declared that
> I have no taste :-). More of a case of changing out one ugly hack for
> a new ugly hack. It's only merit is that this ugly hack works, where
> the old one has run into terminal problems.

I have no better ideas than this one.

Matthew Wilcox once suggested a much more fundamental change.
See: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0211/4114.html

Absolutely not 2.6.14 material - just wanted to bring the idea back
again.

Sam