From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Denis Zaitsev <zzz@cd-club.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: FIXED_486_STRING ?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 02:44:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020414024406.A16692@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020413224743.A13355@natasha.zzz.zzz> <32667.1018744038@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:27:18AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> Dead code, it has been dead since at least 2.0.21. Unless somebody
> wants to fix the string-486 code, delete FIXED_486_STRING,
> CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486 and include/asm-i386/string-486.h.
I proposed doing this a few months back, then someone stepped forward
who had worked on these routines recently and fixed up whatever problems
they originally exhibited. Deleting the dead code from 2.2 / 2.4 probably
makes sense, but it'd be nice to have the 2.5 ones fixed up.
Dave.
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-14 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-13 16:47 FIXED_486_STRING ? Denis Zaitsev
2002-04-14 0:27 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-14 0:44 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-04-15 0:38 ` Denis Zaitsev
2002-04-15 1:03 ` Dave Jones
2002-04-15 1:25 ` Denis Zaitsev
2002-04-15 1:36 ` Dave Jones
2002-04-15 1:46 ` Denis Zaitsev
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