Re: [patch] generic-hardirqs.patch, 2.6.9-rc1-bk14

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:57:55AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> It may be time for a __weak define to abbreviate __attribute__((weak));
>> we seem to use it in enough places.

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:01:46PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Personally I'm extremly unhappy with that week model for things like
> this.  There's no reason why architectures could implement irq handling
> as inlines.  Or in case of s390 not at all.

If there's a question of "not at all" that probably rules out weak
symbols as a method of handling it.


-- wli
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