On Wed, 07 Aug, at 10:10:54AM, Roy Franz wrote: > I went this way since the shared code is in a separate file - I really > didn't like using a global variable as part of the interface to > the shared code. This has the nice side benefit of allowing the ARM > stub to not use any global variables, so we don't have to do > any GOT fixups to relocate the code - it is position independent if we > don't use global variables.
OK, that would be a win. Please include this rationale in the patch. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
