Re: [patch] generic-hardirqs.patch, 2.6.9-rc1-bk14

William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-08T13:05:36Z

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>> And make hardirq.o dependent on some symbols the architectures set.
>> Else arches that don't use it carry tons of useless baggage around
>> (and in fact I'm pretty sure it wouldn't even compie for many)

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:45:47PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> it compiles fine on x86, x64, ppc and ppc64. Why do you think it wont
> compile on others?
> wrt. unused generic functions - why dont we drop them link-time?

It may be time for a __weak define to abbreviate __attribute__((weak));
we seem to use it in enough places.

-- wli