Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965026AbVLNWSN (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:18:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965023AbVLNWSN (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:18:13 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.197]:48098 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965025AbVLNWSM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:18:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OID/D8BNndrPyLRqIBlfte4HbzR1oOqNNGLpV5hZNyLSZg6vmv8mqoUXzNIiqVNE+V7C3oYyC2JmoSDW0IxIjgE9wQR2rLJquKOCNwzIPC0LwrjxlRUZLRWdF/p5lH51fWaND0lIMK/1OiEvrJbZwZwyeg4XdqvWe27aOa7/gdI= Message-ID: <9a8748490512141418w2a3811a9iffe83b5f285e2910@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:18:11 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] offer CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE only if EXPERIMENTAL Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051214221304.GE23349@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051214191006.GC23349@stusta.de> <20051214140531.7614152d.akpm@osdl.org> <20051214221304.GE23349@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1365 Lines: 37 On 12/14/05, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:05:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > Hi Linus, > > > > > > your patch to allow CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE even for EMBEDDED=n has broken > > > the EMBEDDED menu. > > > > It looks like that patch needs to be reverted or altered anyway. sparc64 > > machines are failing all over the place, possibly due to newly-exposed > > compiler bugs. > > > > Whether it's the compiler or it's genuine kernel bugs, the same problems > > are likely to bite other architectures. > > The help text already contains a bold warning. > > What about marking it as EXPERIMENTAL? > That is not that heavy as EMBEDDED but expresses this. > I, for one, definately think this is a good idea. Actually, it boggles my mind what this is doing outside of EMBEDDED - I just noticed it had moved when I build -git4 and oldconfig promted me about it. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/