From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751877AbYDEJVe (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:21:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751353AbYDEJVY (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:21:24 -0400 Received: from oss.sgi.com ([192.48.170.157]:60610 "EHLO oss.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbYDEJVX (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 05:21:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:04:03 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Heiko Carstens Cc: Johannes Weiner , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mingo@elte.hu, davem@davemloft.net, hskinnemoen@atmel.com, cooloney@kernel.org, starvik@axis.com, dhowells@redhat.com, ysato@users.sourceforge.net, takata@linux-m32r.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, kyle@parisc-linux.org, paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, jdike@addtoit.com, miles@gnu.org, chris@zankel.net, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, tony.luck@intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC 01/22] Generic show_mem() implementation Message-ID: <20080405090403.GA24316@linux-mips.org> References: <12071688283927-git-send-email-hannes@saeurebad.de> <1207168839586-git-send-email-hannes@saeurebad.de> <20080403075545.GC4125@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080403124820.GA30356@uranus.ravnborg.org> <871w5nouwp.fsf@saeurebad.de> <20080403181202.GA32319@uranus.ravnborg.org> <87prt6muux.fsf@saeurebad.de> <20080404213540.GA15535@uranus.ravnborg.org> <87d4p5kyhj.fsf@saeurebad.de> <20080405075108.GA6730@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080405075108.GA6730@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:51:08AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > But you can solve this problem with no ifdefs and config options at all, > since you may as well just use __attribute__((weak)) for the generic > implementation. Which may result in the version of the function getting linked in but staying unreferenced. Ralf