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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:32:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12086.1013704379@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>  of "Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:13:21 EST." <3C6BE221.7F824863@mandrakesoft.com>


> Is this the first in a multi-step patch series, or something like that?

What makes you ask that?

> You just duplicated code in a generic location and pasted it into the
> arch.  Where's the gain in that?  I do see the gain in letting the arch
> allocate the task struct, but surely your patch should provide a generic
> mechanism for an arch to call by default, instead of duplicating code??

Hmmm... Is it worth going through all fun of creating another CONFIG_xxxx
option to govern the inclusion of such code?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-14 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-14 15:26 [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch David Howells
2002-02-14 16:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-14 16:32   ` David Howells [this message]
2002-02-14 16:46     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-14 17:03       ` David Howells
2002-02-14 20:48         ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-14 23:53         ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-15  9:56         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 10:01           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 11:25           ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 11:37             ` David Howells
2002-02-15 12:20               ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 12:56                 ` David Howells
2002-02-15 13:49                   ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 13:51                     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 14:22                       ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 14:07                     ` David Howells
2002-02-15 14:28                       ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 21:56                       ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-15 21:52                   ` Richard Henderson

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