From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: Removal of final callers using fastcall
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:27:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198218422.8584.1.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220183029.86ac61e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 18:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:38:26 -0800 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew, I'm not sure who is best to hit with these final dribs and
> > drabs removing fastcall. Once all of these have hit Linus' tree
> > I will send a final patch deleting the include/linux/linkage.h
> > definitions as well as any remaining occurances.
>
> Yes, that's a good approach, thanks. Wait until the tree is fastcall-clean
> and then kill the definition(s).
>
> I think I skipped rather a lot of remove-fastcall patches because a)
> suitable maintainers were cc'ed and b) I was going through a
> suicidal-over-bug-reports phase.
>
> Please keep them coming - I've always disliked fastcall.
Once I see these have hit the main tree, I'll send patch getting any
more that have snuck in for the next rc. After that there should be
few enough left that I can send you a small patch for the next rc
with the definition removal as well.
I'll keep on top of these.
Harvey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-21 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 23:38 [PATCH] misc: Removal of final callers using fastcall Harvey Harrison
2007-12-21 2:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-21 6:27 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
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