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On 28 May 2007, at 18:11, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I have not seen any explanations: > - Why did the upstream author write the code that way? Apparently due to his requirement for extreme portability. The original code was designed to work on everything from 16-bit DOS through CRAY supercomputers through Windows, Unices and Linux. The author has stated on the thread that it's a good idea to remove unnecessary ifdefs when porting the code into the kernel, given that the portability requirements are obviously no longer needed. Michael-Luke - 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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