On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:55:30PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > arch/mips/dec/prom/console.c | 38 +-------- > > Any particular reason for replacing an optimised version with this > miserable contraption? I doubt anybody will notice when the first few lines of bootup messages take a few cycles extra. For the moment it did matter to get rid of the impressive barbed wire fence made from several independant early printk implementations and macros, functions and function pointers being named prom_printf with no apparent pattern. If you think the code really needs to be optimized as the next step, I take patches. Ralf