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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:13:34PM -0600, Mike Strosaker wrote: > Hello, All: > > There are some ppc64-specific actions that should be taken upon a > kernel panic. Rather than adding a new #ifdef in panic(), it seems to > me that it would be worthwhile to add a single callout, and move the > arch-specific code out to the arch subtrees. Does this seem reasonable, > or should another #ifdef be added in panic() to perform the ppc64- > specific actions? Don't do it that way. Add a weak alias to empty function and override it on ppc64 by defining a function with the same name. See how cond_syscall() is done - similar trick will work here. There's no need to mess with the architectures that do not use your hook. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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