From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: how is the asm-generic to be used?
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:02:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DEF86A2.2010704@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DEF1DB1.98CD4BB3@mvista.com>
george anzinger wrote:
> Lets say there is a bit of code in the kernel ( i.e.
> .../kernel/ ) that needs a function that is in an
> asm-gneric/*.h file. Now someone comes along and does an
> asm-x386/*.h with the same functionality but much faster asm
> functions. How should the using code be set up to get the
> faster asm version if it exists and the generic version if
> it does not?
Can you be more specific? :)
asm-generic is for things that belong in include/asm-$ARCH but are also
shared across multiple architectures.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-05 16:55 UTC|newest]
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2002-12-05 9:34 how is the asm-generic to be used? george anzinger
2002-12-05 17:02 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-12-05 19:19 ` george anzinger
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