Re: [patch] make hdrscheck.sh force __asm__ in exported headers

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 18 June 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:17:46 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 18 June 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On 17 Jun 2007 18:54:24 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > This updates scripts/hdrschecks.sh by grepping for asm() constructs
> > > > and rejecting them in favor of __asm__() in exported headers.
> > >
> > > And does the kernel pass these checks?
> >
> > nope ... should i audit the arches before this gets merged ?
>
> Yes please.  I'd rather not break things in this fashion: it causes a storm
> of emails which I need to redirect to the appropriate maintainers who then
> take an arbitrarily long time to do anything.  Meanwhile lots of testers
> get impacted and this reduces the testing level of all the other thousands
> of patches in there.

makes sense, i'll post some stuff

> Also, your changelog sucks:
>
>   This updates scripts/hdrschecks.sh by grepping for asm() constructs and
>   rejecting them in favor of __asm__() in exported headers.
>
> well OK.  But for what reason?  We can see a lot of pain in this patch but
> no gain.  The changelog should tell us what the benefit is, so we can make
> informed tradeoff decisions.

sorry, i blame GNU changelog style ;)
-mike

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