Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 15:13:26 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: ioctl32: kill code duplication (sparc64 tester wanted) |
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Hi!
> > > I don't have a sparc64, but there's certainly no <asm/mtrr.h> for > > > > that arch.. > > > > I thought I killed that one? > > The patch you attached added it..
There are probably more such mistake. It should be easy for anyone with sparc64 to kill them all at once.
> > > Also #including c files is ugly as hell. What's the #ifdef INCLUDES > > > supposed to help? > > > > Yes, but do you have better proposal how to kill 4000+ lines of code > > from each 64-bit architecture? > > What's the reason you can't build fs/compat_ioctl.c normally and pull > in the arch magic through a magic asm/ header?
Some architectures need special stuff (mtrr's), so I'd have to include .c files, too (the other way). [Look at how the table of ioctls is generated, its asm magic].
> You still haven't answered > the second question, btw..
Are you asking why are there #includes in compat_ioctl.c? Its because there is so many of them, and having to update all archs when you tuoch fs/compat_ioctl.c would be bad.
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