Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753267AbZIKBfG (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:35:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753157AbZIKBfF (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:35:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49621 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753132AbZIKBfE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:35:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4AA9A8F6.50709@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:33:42 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: David Daney , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] x86: Convert BUG() to use unreachable() References: <4AA991C1.1050800@caviumnetworks.com> <1252627011-2933-2-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> <4AA9A031.5000602@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 588 Lines: 16 On 09/10/2009 06:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I realize that the RH backport thing is good for testing now, but at the > same time, it really does look nasty. I wonder if we could add some > config-time compiler feature testing - so that you'd not have a version > test at all, but a CONFIG_BUILTIN_UNREACHABLE. > autoconf ;) -hpa -- 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/