Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:49:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9... (compile stats)
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:18:34AM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> These are x86-based stats, yes?  I'm sure other arches will likely tease
> out more...
> 
> A lot of these seem to be related to readl/writel (readb/writeb, etc).
> Those should be straightforward one-line changes, I think... perhaps a job
> for more automated scripting?
> 
> At the very least, it would be nice to post-process the data to show which
> modules are the offenders (and by how much).

Note that quite a few of them are already fixed, and no, not all fixes
had been trivial (read: there had been real bugs found by these warnings).

I'm going to do 2.6.9-bird1 once netdev situation settles down (a bunch of
patches from -bird are getting merged into bk-net).
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