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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] i386: always enable REGPARM
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>
> Is there still a known reason to disable CONFIG_REGPARM on i386 with
>  gcc 3?

Well it lets us turn it off again if we suspect a regparm-related bug. 
That's happened a couple of times.