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From: Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove hardcoded offsets from i386 asm
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 08:28:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040514062855.GA8842@snarc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A4318A.2050504@quark.didntduck.org>

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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 10:40:10PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Generate offsets for thread_info, cpuinfo_x86, and a few others instead 
> of hardcoding them.

Hi Brian,

why not keeping all macro name in uppercase ?

the patch would look a lot smaller, and as the macro got the same
meaning, I don't see why the name should change.

> -	movl TI_FLAGS(%ebp), %ecx
> +	movl TI_flags(%ebp), %ecx

Cheers,
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Tab

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-14  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-14  2:40 [PATCH] Remove hardcoded offsets from i386 asm Brian Gerst
2004-05-14  6:28 ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
2004-05-14 13:29   ` Brian Gerst

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