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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Steven M. Christey" <coley@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] x86_64: re-add a newline to RESTORE_CONTEXT
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:43:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701092343.01112.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070109140424.5f96de69.akpm@osdl.org>


> 
> But the patch is a bugfix.  Without it, you cannot do
> 
> 	RESTORE_CONTEXT	\
> 	.globl ...	\
> 
> Was the addition of this restriction to RESTORE_CONTEXT deliberate, or
> mistaken?

RESTORE_CONTEXT is a private macro and I don't see why we should
support out of tree usages for that. As long as it works as it is 
in the tree it is fine.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-09 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-09  2:55 [2.6 patch] x86_64: re-add a newline to RESTORE_CONTEXT Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 11:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-09 22:04   ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-09 22:43     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-01-09 22:52       ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-09 23:43         ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-10  8:37     ` [discuss] " Jan Beulich

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