Re: x86 building altivec for raid ?

[Neil Brown]

On Sunday November 13, jamagallon@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Kernel is 2.6.14-mm2.
> This is an x86 box, why does it compile raid6altivec*.c ? I suppose it
> does not generate any code, because of some #ifdef magic, but why does
> it build them anyways ? Looks a bit strange.

It's probably just easier that way.
I guess you could do the following, but I'm not sure that it is really
worth it.

NeilBrown

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

diff ./drivers/md/Makefile~current~ ./drivers/md/Makefile
--- ./drivers/md/Makefile~current~	2005-11-14 08:13:43.000000000 +1100
+++ ./drivers/md/Makefile	2005-11-14 08:23:29.000000000 +1100
@@ -8,12 +8,15 @@ dm-multipath-objs := dm-hw-handler.o dm-
 dm-snapshot-objs := dm-snap.o dm-exception-store.o
 dm-mirror-objs	:= dm-log.o dm-raid1.o
 md-mod-objs     := md.o bitmap.o
+raid6-$(CONFIG_ALTIVEC) :=  \
+		   raid6altivec1.o raid6altivec2.o raid6altivec4.o \
+		   raid6altivec8.o
+raid6-$(CONFIG_X86) :=  raid6mmx.o raid6sse1.o
+raid6-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := raid6sse2.o
 raid6-objs	:= raid6main.o raid6algos.o raid6recov.o raid6tables.o \
 		   raid6int1.o raid6int2.o raid6int4.o \
 		   raid6int8.o raid6int16.o raid6int32.o \
-		   raid6altivec1.o raid6altivec2.o raid6altivec4.o \
-		   raid6altivec8.o \
-		   raid6mmx.o raid6sse1.o raid6sse2.o
+		   $(raid6-y)
 hostprogs-y	:= mktables
 
 # Note: link order is important.  All raid personalities

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