From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751854Ab0ESPVe (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2010 11:21:34 -0400 Received: from chilli.pcug.org.au ([203.10.76.44]:42923 "EHLO smtps.tip.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751412Ab0ESPVb (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2010 11:21:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 01:21:24 +1000 From: Stephen Rothwell To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Ingo Molnar , Luca Barbieri , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/atomic changes for v2.6.35 Message-Id: <20100520012124.ec269c14.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <4BF3FD4F.1060108@zytor.com> References: <20100517224531.GA27400@elte.hu> <4BF3F480.3000902@zytor.com> <20100520003641.00618acb.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <4BF3FD4F.1060108@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Thu__20_May_2010_01_21_24_+1000_r/.OcK5MWBW3DLxP" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Signature=_Thu__20_May_2010_01_21_24_+1000_r/.OcK5MWBW3DLxP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 19 May 2010 08:01:35 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > It was discussed on linux-kernel -- note that there is no breakage for > smaller architectures unless you enable the test directly or via randconf= ig. or allmodconfig or allyesconfig. > The other part is that generic atomic64_t has been available since > middle of 2009, and was *also* discussed extensively on linux-kernel -- > in fact, several of the smaller architectures added support at that > time. That the breakage occurred because of an inconsequential test > rather than real code is thus really nothing but fortunate. I don't disagree with any of that (except that an m68k allmodconfig build may well build fine without the test being built so maybe building the test needs a dependency). My point was that I keep hearing the "Linus said it is OK to break the other architectures" argument brought up where it really is not even relevant to the conversation. If anything, I guess Geert was taking a little dig at me because his problem should have been noticed among my build results. Unfortunately even I don't check all the build results all the time (I guess I hope that maintainers may have time to check them out once in a while). --=20 Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ --Signature=_Thu__20_May_2010_01_21_24_+1000_r/.OcK5MWBW3DLxP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkv0AfQACgkQjjKRsyhoI8xhqgCfYZ37Z6psZjaRpOxaPOEKXFo5 ov4An3N+Kz/RCQWnz8kD66ismTvchAgK =V021 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Thu__20_May_2010_01_21_24_+1000_r/.OcK5MWBW3DLxP--