Date: 14 Jan 2004 10:39:40 +0100
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:39:40 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       jh@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG for -mregparm=3
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:34:59AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:06, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > According to some gcc developers it should be safe to use in all
> > gccs that are still supports (2.95 and up) 
> 
> it is not safe for the kernel until the cardbus CardServices patches get
> merged (is in -mm), for the same reason CardServices() is broken on
> amd64.

Just mark them asmlinkage then.

I would be a shame to leave that much space saving on the table just
for an single misdesigned API than can be easily fixed.

-Andi
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