[PATCH] arm: remove unused code in delay.S
Felipe Contreras
felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 06:47:01 EDT 2009
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> wrote:
>
>> >> > Because then you get it whenever you configure for V4 as the lowest
>> >> > denominator CPU, which leads to the buggy behaviour on better CPUs.
>> >> > It's far better to leave it as is and just accept that the old CPUs
>> >> > will have longer than necessary delays. If people really really
>> >> > care (and there's likely to only be a small minority of them now)
>> >> > changing the '0' to a '1' is a very simple change for them to carry
>> >> > in their local tree. Unlike getting the right unrolling etc.
>> >>
>> >> Well, they can also 'git revert' this patch. If somebody really cares
>> >> I think they should shout now and provide a better patch, otherwise
>> >> this one should be merged.
>> >
>> > On the other hand, having the code there as it currently stands is not
>> > harmful in any way, so leaving it there is just as easy.
>>
>> It makes the code less understandable. I'm not sure about linux's
>> practices, but an #if 0 generally means somebody is being lazy.
>
> Not in this case, as you was explained to you. You may want to add
> explaining comment above #if 0....
Yes, but I've no idea in which situations somebody might want to
enable that code. Old chips? Which old chips?
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Felipe Contreras
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