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From: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>,
	"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures (2.6.31)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:36:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091122023659.a9cf6980.isloginov@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091121152633.8c79e341.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> And then, in a .c file:
> 
> #ifndef ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
> #error "you lose"
> #endif
> 
> and, of course:
> 
> #if ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
> <implement real code>
> #else
> <implement empty stubs>
> #endif
> 
> 
> This way
> 
> a) the definition site for ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
>    right next to the definition site for flush_dcache_page(), instead
>    of being in some random remote file and
> 
> b) people can't forget to implement ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE.
> 
> 
> Generally we prefer to avoid defining ARCH_HAS_FOO in header files and
> we prefer to control the definition in Kconfig.  But it sounds like we
> have a special case here..
> 

I agree. I think this is the best way. I will rewrite the patch.
Thank you!

-- 
Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-21 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-18 14:08 [PATCH] mtd: fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures (2.6.31) Ilya Loginov
2009-11-21  0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-21 14:04   ` Ilya Loginov
2009-11-21 17:54     ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-21 23:11       ` Ilya Loginov
2009-11-21 23:26         ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-21 23:36           ` Ilya Loginov [this message]
2009-11-22  9:46           ` Ilya Loginov
2009-11-22  9:53             ` David Woodhouse
2009-11-22 18:49               ` Ilya Loginov
2009-11-22 13:29             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-22 13:55               ` Ilya Loginov
2009-11-22 18:48                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-22 19:18                   ` Ilya Loginov
2009-11-22 19:51                     ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-22 20:55                       ` Ilya Loginov
2009-11-24 20:48                         ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-25  1:01                           ` Ilya Loginov

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