From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:57:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020906095743.A35@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020904074612.BA6CE2C073@lists.samba.org>; from rusty@rustcorp.com.au on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:38:48PM +1000
Hi!
> > Actually Rusty what's the big deal, add an "initializer"
> > arg to the macro. It doesn't hurt anyone, it doesn't lose
> > any space in the kernel image, and the macro arg reminds
> > people to do it.
> >
> > I think it's a small price to pay to keep a longer range
> > of compilers supported :-)
>
> I disagree. They might not have a convenient (static) initializer, in
> which case it's simply cruel and unusual, to work around an obscure
> compiler bug.
Ugh? of course it will always have convient initializer, namely zero.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-06 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-04 2:35 Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 2:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 4:04 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 4:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-09 8:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 8:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 5:05 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 5:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04 5:12 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 6:00 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 6:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 6:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 7:38 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-06 9:57 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-09-09 3:45 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 6:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 8:17 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 8:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 9:41 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 15:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-04 23:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-04 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-04 3:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05 9:10 Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 9:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05 19:08 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 19:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 12:17 Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-09 23:24 ` Rusty Russell
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