Re: 2.2.15pre15: SPARC #s till not fixed?

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 10:09:49 EST

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    "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:
    > I'm not having it fixed in 2.2.x, people shouldn't be using
    > beta compilers to build stable release kernels.

    It helps catching bugs (in the compiler or the kernel). Not often, but it
    netted some in the past.

    > But if people really want it, fine, but for 2.2.16 because
    > I don't want Alan to be held up any longer for 2.2.15 at
    > this point.

    IMO, this is broken as it uses a Sun-specific extension of the assembler
    instead of the canonical way of doing this. 

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