Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32

["Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 15:32 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Unless someone can think of a problem with attribute(weak), I think you'll
> find that it's the simplest-by-far solution.

The only problem I can see with this is that on x86_64 and other
platforms that reimplement the routine as an inline function, I think
we'll be left with a small hunk of dead code in the form of the
out-of-line version in lib/ that never gets referenced.

Is this something people care about?  If so, I could turn the config
setting in my last patch on its head, and use it to indicate that the
routine should *not* be built for a particular arch.  This would make
lib/Makefile slightly uglier, but would avoid cluttering every other
arch's lib/Makefile and Kconfig file.

	<b

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