On 11/27/07, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: > > > Uniformity for the sake of uniformity? The small data addressing is > > really elegant and I don't think it should be dropped just for the > > sake of uniformity. > > Uniformity for the sake of code size reduction and easier maintenance. Code-size reduction? You must be talking *source* code size reduction. Surely the small-data access-method decreases object code size. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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