From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: relocs is only used with 32bit
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:28:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B88F80.3080203@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B80F7B.2020007@kernel.org>
Hi Yinghai,
In general I prefer minimizing the conditional sections rather than
maximizing them. If nothing else, it catches errors earlier that way,
and makes it easier to eventually eliminate them entirely.
-hpa
Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Impact: cleanup
>
> those lines is not needed for 64bit
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinux.bin := -R .comment
> $(obj)/vmlinux.bin: vmlinux FORCE
> $(call if_changed,objcopy)
>
> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y)
>
> targets += vmlinux.bin.all vmlinux.relocs relocs
> hostprogs-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += relocs
> @@ -42,8 +43,6 @@ quiet_cmd_relocbin = BUILD $@
> $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.all: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
> $(call if_changed,relocbin)
>
> -ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y)
> -
> ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
> $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.gz: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.all FORCE
> $(call if_changed,gzip)
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-12 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 19:22 [PATCH] x86: relocs is only used with 32bit Yinghai Lu
2009-03-12 4:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-03-13 22:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-13 23:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
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