Re: 2.5.8-dj1 : arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c error

From: Martin J. Bligh (Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 15:49:18 EST


>> I wonder if we can play the same trick we've played before ....
>> haven't tested the appended, but maybe it, or something like it
>> will work without the ifdef's?
>
> IMHO, this sort of trickery in the name of improving readability
> is misguided. To me, anyway, the #ifdef's are much easer to read than
> magic name-changing macros buried in a header somewhere.

Well, except that you can take that abstraction inside your head, and
not worry about it when reading the mainline code. I don't really care
one way or the other, at least io.h is readable now ;-)

M.

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