Re: how is the asm-generic to be used?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:02:26 -0500


george anzinger wrote:
> Lets say there is a bit of code in the kernel ( i.e.
> .../kernel/ ) that needs a function that is in an
> asm-gneric/*.h file. Now someone comes along and does an
> asm-x386/*.h with the same functionality but much faster asm
> functions. How should the using code be set up to get the
> faster asm version if it exists and the generic version if
> it does not?

Can you be more specific? :)

asm-generic is for things that belong in include/asm-$ARCH but are also
shared across multiple architectures.

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