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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 14:26:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6] Completely out of line spinlocks / i386
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On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> writes:
>
> > Index: linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c
> > diff -N linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c
> > --- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> > +++ linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c	8 Aug 2004 05:39:13 -0000
>
> Why not just make this an assembler source?  It contains no real C code.
> The only downside is that EXPORT_SYMBOL must be moved elsewhere, but on
> the other hand it would make the assembler code more readable,

I thought about doing that, but this version touched the least amount of
files.