From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:02:50 +0000 Subject: Re: ia64 circular dependency on asm-offsets.h Message-Id: <20050913200250.GC18319@mars.ravnborg.org> List-Id: References: <200509131602.j8DG2Ffr005104@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <200509131602.j8DG2Ffr005104@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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