Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763329AbXHCQzA (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:55:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755299AbXHCQyy (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:54:54 -0400 Received: from pollux.ds.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.208.7]:4026 "EHLO pollux.ds.pg.gda.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755956AbXHCQyx (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:54:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:54:49 +0100 (BST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Andrew Morton cc: Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM, Daniel Ritz , Linus Torvalds , Bjorn Helgaas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes In-Reply-To: <20070802163547.39f41af1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <200708030106.33917.daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> <46B267BA.4030006@sun.com> <20070802163547.39f41af1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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: 726 Lines: 18 On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > We could use that to prevent init code to be called after code is freed. > > If we can omit a function call without breaking anything then we shouldn't > have been calling that function at all ;) Well, we can always put a couple of otherwise unneeded calls here and there to make the compiler happy to enjoy its freedom to produce code and exercise the calling convention rules set by the ABI before the actual use. ;-) Maciej - 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/