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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.7-bk: asm/setup.h and linux/init.h
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:34:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088292861.3727.5.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040626162429.4592cced.pj@sgi.com>

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 09:24, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Could someone speak a few words on why a patch such as this is
> desirable?

Read Russell's original post; including asm-arm/setup.h from
linux/init.h enters #include hell.  It's purely a practical matter, and
while I agree with you in general on sizeof(), we need the constant
somewhere anyway to declare the array.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-26 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-26 14:35 2.6.7-bk: asm/setup.h and linux/init.h Russell King
2004-06-26 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:49   ` Russell King
2004-06-26 23:24     ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-26 23:34       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-06-26 23:56         ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-26 23:30     ` Rusty Russell

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