On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:34:29PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > As you can see, with this, the assignment won't work. Eg, If I wan't to do > local_irq_count = 0, it translates (under UP) to > (cpu, irq_stat[0].__local_irq_count) = 0, which is syntactically wrong. yes, I follow your point (at least in 2.2 there were several cases like this) You have two options 1) define IRQ_STAT locally as you need it 2) post a patch to linux-kernel with relevant benchmarks and statistics showing it has no appreciable performance benefit to stay broken like this regards john -- "I went to set up a Yahoo ID for my dog. (Don't ask, but the DOG'S email was cluttering my inbox)." - Ruthless Advisorette -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
