Re: x86 building altivec for raid ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Neil Brown wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it's really just simpler.  It ends up being an empty .o file on 
non-altivec machines.

I don't object to changing it, but it doesn't seem worth it to change it.

	-hpa
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