Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:35:30 -0500 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] export ia64_max_cacheline_size |
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:05:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > It's an API used only in slow pathes. It's much better to enforce modularity > > in that case. > > hm, spose so. Putting it into .c means that all arches except one > implement it under include/, which is also a bit irritating sometimes, such > as $EDITOR include/asm-*/dma-mapping.h. > > It's a 51%/49% decision, but I'm not sure which way.
I posted a patch for this mid-September. (Actually, I posted two. The first one was basically identical to davej's, and Christoph disliked it... :-)
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112657055513967&w=2
I had hoped that it would get mainlined well before the b44 patch, but apparently it fell through the cracks. The patch still applies, so I'll follow-up with it after this message.
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