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From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/raid6: correctly check for assembler capabilities
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:03:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422997415.23894.44.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150204075033.25fb2317@notabene.brown>

On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 07:50 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> Actually the prefix of this macro is "CONFIG_AS_", not "CONFIG_" :-)
> CONFIG_AS_ is reserved for assembly magic, and is never used by the the
> kconfig system.
> 
> (Well..... I might have made bits of that up, but "git grep 'config AS_'"
> doesn't find anything).

That's correct, there are no Kconfig symbols starting with AS_. But
still, I would like to hear whether there's a reasonable chance I might
convince other people to adopt my peeve.

The thinking behind that peeve is, basically, that where people
encounter a CONFIG_* macro they should only have to check the .config
file to see how that macro was evaluated in the build that was used.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle


  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-03 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23  8:29 [PATCH] x86/raid6: correctly check for assembler capabilities Jan Beulich
2015-01-23 16:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-01-28  5:02   ` NeilBrown
2015-02-03 20:31 ` Paul Bolle
2015-02-03 20:50   ` NeilBrown
2015-02-03 21:03     ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2015-02-03 21:09       ` NeilBrown
2015-02-03 21:24         ` Valentin Rothberg
2015-02-04  7:51       ` Jan Beulich
2015-06-16 19:46       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-16 19:56         ` Paul Bolle
2015-06-16 20:05           ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-16 20:37             ` Paul Bolle
2015-06-16 20:42               ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-16 20:51                 ` Paul Bolle

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