From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761325AbYDKS0i (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:26:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760162AbYDKS0b (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:26:31 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39495 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760070AbYDKS0b (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:26:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080411.112631.218741504.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: kyle@mcmartin.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roland@redhat.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] reorganize From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20080411050019.GC27073@phobos.i.cabal.ca> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:58:56 -0700 (PDT) > I'm starting to suspect that it's the fact that some architectures still > have > > EXTRA_AFLAGS := -traditional > > or equivalent and I'm wondering whether that is really necessary. IIRC x86 > got rid of the use of --traditional a long time ago, exactly because it > caused problems with any fancier C preprocessor things. A lot of it is probably simply copy and paste from other ports. When I removed it from Sparc long ago, the only issue I had was that there were some things using "/**/" concatenation in some sparc assembler CPP macros, and those were easily fixed.