Re: Reorg raid5 block xor routines

2000-09-12 Thread Richard Henderson
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:26:39AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > If its 15K, and you're compiling raid as modules, why can't this code > also be compiled as a module in the architecture tree? Last time I > looked, modprobe handled dependencies between modules. With the code as-is, you'd have half

Re: Reorg raid5 block xor routines

2000-09-12 Thread Richard Henderson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:48:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - Please split this up the same way the checksums were split up: >make the xor routine be an architecture-dependent library thing, with >the "generic" slow one possibly just a regular library thing. This is simple enough t

Re: Reorg raid5 block xor routines

2000-09-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Richard Henderson wrote: > > There are two main purposes to this reorg: > > * Split up the tremndously huge xor.c. Looks ok, however: - please use unified diffs. Standard context diffs are horrible. - Please split this up the same way the checksums were split up: m