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From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, jmorris@intercode.com.au, TSPAT@de.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: crypto API and IBM z990 hardware support
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:08:25 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030709220825.A22087@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030707.195350.39170946.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:53:50PM -0700

David S. Miller wrote:
> I totally disagree.  I think the way we do things today is _STUPID_.
> We put arch code far away from the generic version which makes finding
> stuff very difficult for people inspecting the code for the first time.
> 
> For example, the fact that I have to go groveling in
> arch/foo/lib/whoknowswhatfile.whoknowswhatextension to look at
> the memcpy/checksum/whatever implementation is completely busted.

Hear ! Hear ! Maybe I could also get you interested in the idea
of moving headers with inline functions to the only spot where
they are actually used ?

E.g. most of include/net/tcp.h pretty much only matters for
net/ipv4/. It would be so nice if a  grep -w thing *.[ch]  in
net/ipv4/ would really find all uses of "thing".

- Werner

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-10  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-02  7:07 crypto API and IBM z990 hardware support Thomas Spatzier
2003-07-02  9:35 ` James Morris
2003-07-07  7:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-08  2:53     ` David S. Miller
2003-07-08  3:37       ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-08  3:35         ` David S. Miller
2003-07-10  1:08       ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-07-10  1:08         ` David S. Miller
2003-07-10  2:06           ` Werner Almesberger
2003-07-10  2:06             ` David S. Miller
2003-07-10  2:37               ` Werner Almesberger
2003-07-11  0:02                 ` David S. Miller
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1057799700.15422.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-07-10  5:55         ` Pete Zaitcev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-02 12:35 Thomas Spatzier
2003-07-02 16:57 ` James Morris
2003-07-07  7:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-07 10:27     ` James Morris
2003-07-02 20:23 Ulrich Weigand
     [not found] <4P45.5YN.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <4T81.24d.41@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-07-02 22:06   ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-07-06 14:08     ` James Morris
2003-07-06 17:46       ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-07-07  7:14       ` Christoph Hellwig

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