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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:38:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070122153813.GT9093@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070122151841.6d0473e4@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:18:41PM +0000, Alan wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:13:00 +0100
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> 
> > Using assembler code for performance in drivers might have been a good 
> > idea 15 years ago when this code was written, but with today's compilers 
> > that's unlikely to be an advantage.
> > 
> > Besides this, it also hurts the readability.
> > 
> > Simply use the C code that was already there as an alternative.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> 					"stosb\n\t"
> 
> NAK
> 
> The C codepaths are essentially untested on this driver.

Has any part of this driver ever be tested with kernel 2.6?
Or compiled with gcc 4?

> Alan

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-21 19:13 [2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM Adrian Bunk
2007-01-22 15:18 ` Alan
2007-01-22 15:38   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-01-22 15:53     ` Alan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-06  1:06 Adrian Bunk

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