From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: rutt@chezrutt.com (John Ruttenberg),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux kernel mailing list),
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: wavelan has fatal error with 2.4.0 (but worked in 2.4.0-test12)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:13:42 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14G2LB-0006zy-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010109090427.A30175@bougret.hpl.hp.com> from "Jean Tourrilhes" at Jan 09, 2001 09:04:27 AM
> This is a bug with the definition of udelay(). Somebody tried
> to be too clever with udelay(), and the end result is that it breaks
> perfectly good and valid code.
> Therefore, it should be reported as such on LKML, a bug in udelay().
It is a bug in the driver.
> there. For my part, I insist that the code is correct, that replacing
> an inline function by a #define is going backwards and that udelay()
> should be fixed one way or another (easy, just define __bad_udelay()
> as returning a compilation warning or an error message).
You can't #define a function to a #warning or #error in C. Language limitation
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[not found] <200101091217.f09CH1n01252@mojo.chezrutt.com>
2001-01-09 17:04 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2001-01-09 17:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-01-09 17:42 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2001-01-09 17:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-09 17:58 ` Jean Tourrilhes
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