Re: [PATCH 01/11] ftrace: handle generic arch calls

Steven Rostedt
2008-10-29T20:23:56Z

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >
> > > Since x86 is the ambiguous case, I made it the one that would be converted
> > > to i386 or x86_64 since those could be passed in directly.
> > The trick is usually to replace use of ARCH with SRCARCH.
>
> That won't help - what he wants to know is whether he's on 32bit or
> on 64bit.

I will still get the "bits" parameter. The issue that we are talking about
here is that I have this ugly if statement that deals with the fact that
we can get "x86", "x86_64" or "i386" passed in as the ARCH. I'm guessing
if we switch ARCH to SRCARCH then we can just test against x86 and bits?

-- Steve