Re: Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIOtestingon2.6.0-test7-mm1)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:08:08PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:57:19PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:46:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >...
> > > > -Os has it's benefits on some systems, so it shouldn't be totally hidden 
> > > > under EMBEDDED. OTOH, it's less tested, so only people who know what 
> > > > they are doing should use it (EXPERIMENTAL plus help text).
> > > 
> > > It causes kernels to crash on a major linux distribution.  We need to
> > > either make it very hard to turn on, or just forget it altogether.
> > 
> > The -Os patch with a dependency on EMBEDDED is below.
> > 
> > diffstat output:
> > 
> >  arch/arm/Makefile   |    2 --
> >  arch/h8300/Kconfig  |    4 ++++
> >  arch/h8300/Makefile |    2 +-
> >  Makefile            |    8 +++++++-
> >  init/Kconfig        |   10 ++++++++++
> >  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> So now ARM goes back to not building with -Os.
>...

With this patch ARM should default to -Os.

Could you recheck whether it really doesn't work?

cu
Adrian

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