On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:52:22AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 02:29 -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> 
> > Before:
> > /dev/sdc:
> >  Timing buffered disk reads:   92 MB in  3.03 seconds =  30.32 MB/sec
> > 
> > After:
> > /dev/sdc:
> >  Timing buffered disk reads:  174 MB in  3.02 seconds =  57.61 MB/sec
> 
> 
> nice!
> 
> More proof that #ifdef MODULE is considered harmful... how much of it is
> actually left in the kernel? Maybe we could kill it entirely from
> drivers/*  (of course it has a limited place in include/*)

Too many...

And there are places where it's actually useful:

  #if defined(CONFIG_FOO) || (defined(MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_FOO_MODULE))

is a good way to express that driver bar can use functionality of driver 
foo if it's available.

cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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