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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module compiler version check still needed?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:59:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31645.1155445159@ocs10w.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:48:36 +0200." <200608130648.36178.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen (on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:48:36 +0200) wrote:
>
>Does anybody know of any reason why we would still need the compiler version
>check during module loading? AFAIK on i386 it was only needed to handle
>2.95 (which got dropped) and on x86-64 it was never needed. Is there
>a need on any other architecture for it?

IA64 still needs the check.  include/asm-ia64/spinlock.h generates
different calls to the out of line spinlock handler, depending on the
version of gcc.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-13  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-13  4:48 module compiler version check still needed? Andi Kleen
2006-08-13  4:59 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2006-08-13 20:27   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-13 22:04     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-13 22:14     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-08-14  4:59       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-14  5:38         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-14  5:45           ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-14  9:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-14  9:19   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-14 22:11     ` Adrian Bunk

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