Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Yes, that should work.  It's still ugly, and I have to say I find the
> complexity rather distasteful.  I am willing to be convinced it's worth it,
> but I would really like to see hard numbers.

I really cannot imagine that this kind of pain is *ever* worth it. 

Please give an example of something so important that we'd want to do 
complex code rewriting on the fly. What _is_ the point of imv_cond()?

		Linus
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