From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:24:37 +0100 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation Message-ID: <20051213092437.GS23384@wotan.suse.de> References: <20051212161944.3185a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20051213075441.GB6765@elte.hu> <20051213075835.GZ15804@wotan.suse.de> <20051213004257.0f87d814.akpm@osdl.org> <20051213084926.GN23384@wotan.suse.de> <20051213010126.0832356d.akpm@osdl.org> <20051213090517.GQ23384@wotan.suse.de> <20051213011540.3070176f.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051213011540.3070176f.akpm@osdl.org> To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andi Kleen , mingo@elte.hu, dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, arjan@infradead.org, matthew@wil.cx, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Spose so - I don't know what people are using out there. I don't think it was shipped in major distros at least (AFAIK) They all went from 2.95 to 3.1/3.2 Perhaps stick an error for 3.0 in and wait if people are complaining? > > > AFAIK it has never been widely used. If we assume 3.1+ minimum it has the > > advantage that named assembly arguments work, which make > > the inline assembly often a lot easier to read and maintain. > > There are a few places in the tree which refuse to compile with 3.1 and 3.2. Really? Which ones? Haven't seen that and I still use 3.2 occasionally (it's the default compiler on SLES9 and I believe on RHEL3 too) -Andi