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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bcopy()
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:17:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021007191726.A23246@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210071105350.21165-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:08:19AM -0700

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:08:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I'd much rather see the XFS etc code moved away from bcopy() first,
> because that's the _real_ cleanup. The library code isn't all that ugly in
> comparison.

The lowlevel XFS code tries to stay in sync as much as possible with
the IRIX codebase to make maintaince easier (we're a very small team..).

It could be removed, but I don't think it would help..


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-07 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5.1.0.14.2.20021007195409.00b54a98@pop.gmx.net>
2002-10-07 18:08 ` bcopy() Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 18:14   ` bcopy() Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-07 18:17     ` bcopy() Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 18:17   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-10-07 18:21     ` bcopy() Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 18:31       ` bcopy() Stan Bubrouski
2002-10-08 19:03         ` bcopy() Kai Henningsen
2002-10-07 13:57 bcopy() David Howells
2002-10-07 14:16 ` bcopy() Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-07 15:45 ` bcopy() Linus Torvalds

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