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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:24:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061008202423.GC29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061008132147.958dc6a8.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:21:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:05:55 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> 
> > There's nothing arch-specific about check_signature(), so move it to
> > <linux/io.h>.  Use a cross between the Alpha and i386 implementations
> > as the generic one.
> 
> It wuld have been nice to have uninlined it too.  And to have given
> it a less crappy name.

memcmp_withio(), to follow the general style?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-08 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-05 17:05 [PATCH] Use linux/io.h instead of asm/io.h Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-05 17:05 ` [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-05 17:20   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 22:03   ` Alan Cox
2006-10-08 20:21   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-08 20:24     ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-10-05 17:19 ` [PATCH] Use linux/io.h instead of asm/io.h Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:26   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-05 22:04 ` Alan Cox

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