Re: [PATCH] Remove redundant #ifdef __KERNEL__ checks.

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 04:51:26 EST


On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > Remove the redundant intermediate checks for __KERNEL__ since, as
> > soon as one ends, the next one starts.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
> However, what's much worse is that this already has put series of
> constants which are part of the ABI under __KERNEL__. This is a
> very bad thing.

i'm sure i'm just being dense but i have no clue what you're referring
to. AFAICT, that patch simply removed some redundant preprocessor
directives. am i missing something?

rday

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