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From: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk,
	dhowells@redhat.com, ysato@users.sourceforge.jp,
	tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] generic sys_old_select
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 23:52:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100108225231.GA11332@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> (raw)

> There is, however, a reason *not* to do it which should be carefully
> considered: by co-locating the compatibility version with the modern
> version, it gets access to static functions that are part of the
> implementation of the modern version.  If we move the compatibility
> versions out, it may entail having to export those statics.
> 
>         -hpa

Hmm, do I hear a reason to simply fully #include the (newly separated)
old-style .c file from within the new-style .c file?
Not necessarily a wonderful approach, but perhaps it beats doing a "correct
full separation" and thus having a couple new-born (and unhappy ;) exports
any day?

Andreas Mohr

             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-08 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-08 22:52 Andreas Mohr [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-06 17:21 Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-06 17:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-01-06 17:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-06 17:41     ` Al Viro
2010-01-06 17:47       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-08  9:31       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-08 22:22         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-10  4:49           ` Al Viro
2010-01-06 17:44 ` David Howells

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