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PING: [PATCH 0/6] Avoid PIC and optimize i386 syscalls


On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:17 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>> I'm not the person who has to approve these, I'm only reading 'em out
>> of curiosity, but, the way you've organized this patch series makes it
>> difficult to find the interesting changes.  I'm not even clear on how
>> many there *are*.  It would be better if you separated all of the
>> mechanical changes -- so for instance you would have one patch that
>> adds both the generic and the i386 INLINE_SYSCALL_ERROR_RETURN *but
>> does not use them anywhere*, and then a second patch, which ideally
>> could be summarized as a sed script, to introduce all the uses.  And
>> so on.
>>
>> zw
>
> Here are the updated patches.
>
> --
> H.J.

Any comments, feedbacks, objections?


-- 
H.J.


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