Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263863AbTIIC3D (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:29:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263884AbTIIC3D (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:29:03 -0400 Received: from trained-monkey.org ([209.217.122.11]:25616 "EHLO trained-monkey.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263863AbTIIC3B (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:29:01 -0400 To: "Siddha, Suresh B" Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Linus Torvalds" , , "Nakajima, Jun" , "Mallick, Asit K" Subject: Re: [Patch] asm workarounds in generic header files References: From: Jes Sorensen Date: 08 Sep 2003 22:27:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 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: 705 Lines: 14 >>>>> "Suresh" == Siddha, Suresh B writes: Suresh> Intel ecc compiler doesn't support inline assembly. Attached Suresh> patch is required to enable linux kernel build with Intel ecc Suresh> compiler. Please apply. Hi Suresh, It has always been the community policy that the kernel is compiled with GCC. Therefore wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask Intel to fix it's compiler than changing the kernel like this? Cheers, Jes - 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/