On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:17:10PM +1000, Tim Shimmin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:45:42PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:21:00PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > xfs_macros.c is a mess. If you want to do a service to everyone
> > > kill it and the surrounding machinery and just leave the macros,
> > > without the out of line instances.
> >
> > I don't like xfs_macros.c either, but my understanding
> > was that it still needs to be around, so as not to diverge
> > from the Irix code. At least that is my understanding
> > based on reading this thread:
> > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/linux-xfs/2004-01/msg00187.html
> >
> Yeah, add me to the list of people who don't like xfs_macros.c.
And to the list of people who don't like macro concatenation.
> If you can come up with a patch that is not too ridiculously
> intrusive then I'd welcome it and push it into IRIX (we certainly
> do put code from Linux back into IRIX).
Okay, I realise this last statement could be misinterpreted :)
What I meant to say was that we do put back XFS code into IRIX
that we wrote ourselves (SGI) and initially put into Linux;
or XFS code where the author has assigned copyright over to SGI.
--Tim
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