Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265654AbTFXEF5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:05:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265655AbTFXEF5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:05:57 -0400 Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]:27540 "EHLO TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265654AbTFXEFz (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:05:55 -0400 To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.73] restore UP spinlock workaround for gcc-2.95.3 References: <200306231348.h5NDm76X007502@harpo.it.uu.se> Reply-To: Miles Bader System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop From: Miles Bader Date: 24 Jun 2003 13:19:21 +0900 In-Reply-To: <200306231348.h5NDm76X007502@harpo.it.uu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 14 Also on the v850, a usable gcc-3.x is a relatively recent thing, so I still use gcc-2.x for most things -- and without the spinlock workaround, gcc-2.x for the v850 crashes. Perhaps other archs also have similar issues (not everything is as well-supported as i386!). Given that the spinlock workaround is an extremely small and isolated piece of code, there doesn't really seem to be benefit to removing it, so Linus, please apply Mikael's patch to restore the workaround. Thanks, -Miles -- `Life is a boundless sea of bitterness' - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/