Because your patch just flat out duplicates code line for line into two
arches.
> > You just duplicated code in a generic location and pasted it into the
> > arch. Where's the gain in that? I do see the gain in letting the arch
> > allocate the task struct, but surely your patch should provide a generic
> > mechanism for an arch to call by default, instead of duplicating code??
>
> Hmmm... Is it worth going through all fun of creating another CONFIG_xxxx
> option to govern the inclusion of such code?
I am wondering where you want to go with this, short term and long
term. Is the implementation of this on other arches gonna look the same
-- just line for line copy of code? With maybe ia64 as the lone
exception?
Jeff
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