From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Missing entries in Configuure.help)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:33:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020108143312.A27085@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020106210233.A30319@thyrsus.com> <20020107085307.A17914@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20020108124334.A24742@thyrsus.com> <20020108193503.GA852@gallifrey>
In-Reply-To: <20020108193503.GA852@gallifrey>; from gilbertd@treblig.org on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:35:03PM +0000
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org>:
> * Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com) wrote:
>
> > CPU_ARM922_D_CACHE_ON
> > CPU_ARM922_I_CACHE_ON
> > CPU_ARM922_WRITETHROUGH
>
> Hmm - is there anything ARM922 specific about these - i.e. is there a
> reason that we shouldn't get rid of them and have some architecture
> independent symbols CPU_D_CACHE_ON, CPU_I_CACHE_ON and
> CPU_CACHE_WRITETHROUGH (and more to your taste) and then architectures
> can use the ones which apply to them.
>
> Doesn't seem to be a point in having dupes.
I agree. I think there are now no fewer than four parallel sets of these.
--
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-08 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-07 2:02 Missing entries in Configuure.help) Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-07 8:53 ` Russell King
2002-01-08 17:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-08 18:39 ` Greg KH
2002-01-08 18:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-08 19:35 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-01-08 19:33 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2002-01-07 15:56 ` Greg KH
2002-01-08 17:22 ` Eric S. Raymond
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