From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:22:46 +0200 Message-ID: <5249561.9VpAPLD61M@wuerfel> References: <20160419085221.GA29087@gmail.com> <1461641851.2392.32.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1461641851.2392.32.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Josh Poimboeuf , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Denys Vlasenko , Thomas Graf , Peter Zijlstra , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , jamborm@gcc.gnu.org, Ingo Molnar , Himanshu Madhani , qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Monday 25 April 2016 20:37:31 James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 22:40 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > > > > > > "Josh" == Josh Poimboeuf writes: > > > > Josh> Can you merge this patch for 4.6? > > > > I am really not a big fan of working around compiler bugs in a device > > driver. > > Me neither > > > Are we sure there are no other get_unaligned_be64() calls in the > > kernel that suffer the same fate? > > Agree, plus, as I've said before, we have 3-4 weeks before we go final, > so we still have some time before a decision has to be made. It looks > like the gcc people already have a patch for the compiler, so the > distributions could just push that out through channels. I don't think we can realistically blacklist gcc-4.9.{0,1,2,3}, gcc-5.{0,1,2,3}.* and gcc-6.0 and require everyone to upgrade to compilers that have not been released yet in order to build a linux-4.6 kernel. Arnd