From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>,
Alain L Knaff <Alain.Knaff@lll.lu>, David C Niemi <niemi@tux.org>,
Trivial Patch Monkey <trivial@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SuperH floppy: kill 'register' keyword from floppy.h header
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:22:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080326092227.GB7867@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803260213550.1901@dragon.funnycrock.com>
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:16:32AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> When compilers became generally better at optimizing code than humans, the
> register keyword became mostly useless. For the floppy driver it certainly
> is since it's so slow compared to the rest of the system that optimizing
> access to a single variable or two isn't going to make any real
> difference
> So let's just leave it to the compiler - it'll do a better job anyway.
>
> This patch does away with a few register keywords in the SuperH floppy
> driver.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
applied, thanks.
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2008-03-26 1:16 [PATCH] SuperH floppy: kill 'register' keyword from floppy.h Jesper Juhl
2008-03-26 9:22 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
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