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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.


  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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