From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, hch@infradead.org,
jdike@addtoit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] uml: no extraversion in arch/um/Makefile for mainline
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:26:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907142613.2ab5775e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409072016.01749.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> On Monday 06 September 2004 20:36, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Could you please fix UML to not use ghash.h and remove that one before
> > playing with new toys? This has been requested a few times now.
> Yes, I can try - but I'd like to know the exact reason (I'm not developing UML
> as long as Jeff does).
>
> My idea is that ghash.h is just trivial boilerplate which does not deserve
> generalized code, so that even rewriting the same exact code without using
> those macros (and maybe embedding some assumptions about this usage) would be
> a fine solution; also, there is just one user of it
> (arch/um/kernel/physmem.c, with just one hash defined), so it shouldn't be
> hard.
>
> However, if the problem with ghash.h is different, I need more explainations.
Take one look at ghash.h and you'll see why we don't want it in the tree.
ghash was removed for a while and it was not intended that it come back -
it snuck back by accident. Please, rewrite that piece of UML so we can
again remove ghash.h.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-06 17:35 [uml-devel] [patch 1/1] uml: no extraversion in arch/um/Makefile for mainline blaisorblade_spam
2004-09-06 18:36 ` [uml-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 18:16 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-09-07 21:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-09-08 0:16 ` Jeff Dike
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