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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:15:58 -0700
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>, Miroslav Franc <mfranc@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org

On 09/05/2014 01:12 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>> ... and I'm wondering if I should _remove_ pre-EV56 configurations or
>> move the default choice and produce a warning about unsupported Alpha
>> CPUs instead?
>>
> 
>  depends BROKEN 
> 
> or is that deprecated?
> 

Just rip it out, like I did for the i386.

	-hpa