From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754130AbXLUCbD (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:31:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763669AbXLUCaf (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:30:35 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:40277 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763559AbXLUCae (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:30:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:30:29 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Harvey Harrison Cc: LKML , David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: Removal of final callers using fastcall Message-Id: <20071220183029.86ac61e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1197502706.21291.49.camel@brick> References: <1197502706.21291.49.camel@brick> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:38:26 -0800 Harvey Harrison wrote: > Andrew, I'm not sure who is best to hit with these final dribs and > drabs removing fastcall. Once all of these have hit Linus' tree > I will send a final patch deleting the include/linux/linkage.h > definitions as well as any remaining occurances. Yes, that's a good approach, thanks. Wait until the tree is fastcall-clean and then kill the definition(s). I think I skipped rather a lot of remove-fastcall patches because a) suitable maintainers were cc'ed and b) I was going through a suicidal-over-bug-reports phase. Please keep them coming - I've always disliked fastcall.