Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:43:56 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.5.4 i810_audio, bttv, working at all. |
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > But I'd like to see resulting epic100.tmpl ;-). > > When you have to maintain more than 10 "cookie cutter" net drivers that > are 80-90% the same, you start to want such extremes :)
It's not necessarily a bad idea to have a more capable preprocessor than the C preprocessor. I've cursed preprocessor limitations before, and I there was some discussion about using m4 several years ago (and I mean _several_ years ago - if I were to guess I'd say 6-8 years ago..).
Linus
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