Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

On 8/1/07, Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The generic code has a better chance of being merged if it actually works
at least and doesn't break every platform out there that has an existing
stub. It offers quite a bit of new functionality and does clean things up
a bit, so it would certainly be nice to get things to use that, rather
than having to duplicate all of this crap in the architectures. If it's
not going to be merged, everyone will of course continue using the
existing in-tree stubs (sh, ppc, etc.).

ok, ive opened a tracker on our site for this

It's generally advantageous to get these things working on your
architecture _before_ things are merged however, as it's one less thing
to catch up on after the fact. It also helps to figure out if there are
issues with the current implementation by trying it out on your platform
in advance, it's a lot more work to push back against it once it's
already merged.

of course ... but if there isnt a serious chance of this being merged,
then it isnt in our (Blackfin's) interest to investigate it since our
current solution seems to be chugging alone fine
-mike
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