Re: MAINTAINERS file out of date?
- From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:02:02 -0600
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Andi Kleen wrote:
A lot of that code (although, of course, not all) could be written in C,
though. I'm thinking of taking a stab at rewriting it that way.
That would require a new compiler, right? I don't think that would
make users very happy.
Besides the code is not exactly that maintenance intensive and only
changes rarely so I don't need a pressing need to rewrite it
No, it would not need a new compiler. All it requires is gcc plus a
reasonably recent binutils which you need anyway.
There opportunities to enhance this code without writing it in C.
Such as building the code out comprehensible single of subroutines,
with a well defined calling sequence.
The big benefit when you can go to C is that you can include headers
from elsewhere in the kernel and since setup.S is increasingly
becoming optional it has a fixed interface to the rest of
the kernel, so there is much less opportunity for enhancement there.
Eric
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