On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 11:13 -0700, Laura Abbott wrote: > > Rather than have architectures #define ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN in an architecture > > specific scatterlist.h, make it a proper Kconfig option and use that > > instead. At same time, remove the header files are are now mostly > > useless and just include asm-generic/scatterlist.h. > > Well, the transformation looks fine. Perhaps part of the reason for the > lack of response is that there's no compelling reason in the change log > above for doing this. The usual reason for eliminating ARCH_HAS is that > it's hiding something that would be better expressed a different way > (that's actually intuitive to grep) or that it's expressing something > that should be configurable. Neither of these reasons apply in this > case, because SG_CHAIN definitely is a property of the architecture not > the config space and it's not really hiding anything. Getting rid of pointless copied code is definitely a good enough reason and the patch removes quite some of that. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
