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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip v3] fix 39 'make headers_check' warnings
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:20:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1232331646.5570.5.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232331011.3129.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 07:40 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 19:50 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >  
> > why does such a change introduce new code? It is duplicating existing code 
> > instead of cleaning it all up.
> > 
> 
> That's why I was requesting you to check asm/swab.h because I was in
> doubt whether we need these functions in userspace or not.
> 
> If we do not need these functions in userspace then I will clean these
> up.
> 

As part of doing the swab.h splitout it was very tempting to just stop
exporting _all_ of the asm/swab.h files now that there is a linux/swab.h.
But I ended up leaving things as they were on arches that did expose
their arch specific versions to userspace.

Just a thought.

Harvey


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-19  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-18 14:04 [GIT PULL -tip v3] fix 39 'make headers_check' warnings Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-18 17:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-18 18:50   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-18 18:52     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-18 19:08     ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-18 19:09       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-18 19:45         ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-19  2:16       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-19  5:27         ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-19  2:10     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-19  2:20       ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2009-01-19 11:15         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-19 18:08           ` Harvey Harrison
2009-01-18 18:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-19  9:19   ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-19 11:01     ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-19 11:53       ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-24  6:16         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-04 14:28           ` Avi Kivity
2009-02-04 15:17             ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-04 15:40               ` Avi Kivity
2009-02-04 16:00                 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-02-04 16:37                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-04 17:22                     ` Avi Kivity

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