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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix updates
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:08:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120180851.A18872@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400D6A5B.7090009@sgi.com>; from pfg@sgi.com on Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:50:19AM -0600

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:50:19AM -0600, Patrick Gefre wrote:
> Yes this probably looks a little odd. This was setup this way for TIO. 
> The macro in the TIO code checks to see
> if it is a 'soft' struct or bridge address AND what bridge type it is - 
> accessing different registers depending
> on TIO or not TIO (the 2 cases we have so far). We think this makes the 
> register access functions pretty flexible/generic.

Sorry, but this is completly bogus.  Just declare one accessor per
datatype.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-15 21:54 [PATCH 2.6] Altix updates Pat Gefre
2004-01-16  2:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-16 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-20 17:50   ` Patrick Gefre
2004-01-20 18:08     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-01-20 20:12       ` Patrick Gefre
2004-01-20 20:21         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-20 22:23           ` Patrick Gefre
2004-01-20 23:34             ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-21  0:23               ` Patrick Gefre
2004-01-21  0:26                 ` Christoph Hellwig

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