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DateThu, 05 Dec 2002 12:02:26 -0500
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: how is the asm-generic to be used?
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.

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