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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bring sanity to div64.h and do_div usage
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:34:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15478.25845.343591.883309@trained-monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C76631C.E685815D@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020208113710.04ecedf0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20020207234555.N17426@altus.drgw.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020208181656.03862ec0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <d37kp5v9y5.fsf@lxplus050.cern.ch> <3C7660F5.FC238A7E@mandrakesoft.com> <15478.25001.512565.628500@trained-monkey.org> <3C76631C.E685815D@mandrakesoft.com>

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

Jeff> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>  Why? CONFIG_$ARCH only makes sense if you can enable two
>> architectures in the same build. What does CONFIG_M68K give you that
>> __mc68000__ doesn't provide?

Jeff> 1) it is a Linux kernel standard.  all arches save two define
Jeff> CONFIG_$arch.

Ehm, what standard? the standard way has always been ARCH==, CONFIG_PPC
used to be the only place using this and all it did was to make things
uglier and inconsistent.

Jeff> 2) you have two tests, "ARCH==m68k" in config.in and "__mc68000__"
Jeff> in C code.  CONFIG_M68K means you only test one symbol, the same
Jeff> symbol, in all code.

If you want to do that, then one should use CONFIG_<ARCH> in the
Makefiles as well.

Jeff> 3) as this thread shows, due to #1, users -expect- that
Jeff> CONFIG_M68K will exist

Ehm, most kernel developers will expect ARCH== in Config.in as thats
how it's always been.

Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-22 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-08  5:45 [PATCH] bring sanity to div64.h and do_div usage Troy Benjegerdes
2002-02-08 12:15 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-08 17:57   ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-02-08 18:49     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-02-08 19:34   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-08 21:16     ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-02-15 18:47     ` Updated div64.h cleanup Troy Benjegerdes
2002-02-22 14:59     ` [PATCH] bring sanity to div64.h and do_div usage Jes Sorensen
2002-02-22 15:17       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-22 15:20         ` Jes Sorensen
2002-02-22 15:26           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-22 15:34             ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2002-02-22 16:05               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-22 15:55             ` Andreas Schwab
2002-02-22 16:00               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-22 16:08           ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-02-08 12:29 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-08 19:04 ` Roman Zippel

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