On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 08:41:55 +0100
Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 05:35:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This is not exactly a thing of beauty either. It's much cleaner to use
> > __attribute__((weak)), but that will add an empty call-return to everyone's
> > interrupts.
>
> Let's not go overboard with the weak stuff - it does not get removed
> at link time, so it remains as dead code in the kernel image.
Well.
void handle_dynamic_tick(struct irqaction *action)
{
}
consumes one byte, doesn't it? That's not very far overboard ;)
And we can optimise away that byte by doing what we do with cond_syscall().
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