Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753990AbZIUUzG (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:55:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753989AbZIUUzG (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:55:06 -0400 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:47884 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753922AbZIUUzF (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:55:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:52 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: Julia Lawall , dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/mips: remove duplicate structure field initialization Message-ID: <20090921205551.GA20341@linux-mips.org> References: <20090921192520.GB17310@linux-mips.org> <4AB7E0D1.10506@paralogos.com> <4AB7E50D.4090509@paralogos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB7E50D.4090509@paralogos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 696 Lines: 16 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:41:49PM -0700, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > Ha! Found the breakage. It wasn't a two-phase commit. It was just an > overworked mantainer in a hurry, in July 2007. See commit > 033890b084adfa367c544864451d7730552ce8bf An overworked maintainer in cooperation with a broken compiler. Worse - it's not the first time this type of bug strikes but probably this was never brought to the gcc maintainers' attention. Ralf -- 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/