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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:55:01 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@novell.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: build fix for x86_64...
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:32:47 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Friday 20 July 2007 01:54:51 Luck, Tony wrote:
>  
> > > Tony, perhaps it would make sense to define some common CONFIG
> > > for COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT longer term to make the #ifs for this
> > > case a little less ugly.
> > 
> > Certainly if there is ever a third architecture that needs this the
> > #if mess will be beyond bad.  But with only the two of us we'd trade
> > one ugly #ifdef line here for another half-dozen lines in each of
> > our Kconfig files to define the new term. 
> 
> Half dozens? 
> 
> config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT
> 	bool
> 	default y

or even
	def_bool y


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