From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:55:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/mips: remove duplicate structure field Message-Id: <20090921205551.GA20341@linux-mips.org> List-Id: References: <20090921192520.GB17310@linux-mips.org> <4AB7E0D1.10506@paralogos.com> <4AB7E50D.4090509@paralogos.com> In-Reply-To: <4AB7E50D.4090509@paralogos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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