From: sboyd@codeaurora.org (Stephen Boyd)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Remove BUILD_BUG_ON from asm/bug.h
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:26:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F038EBF.5030408@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ1P6bdAGRa-9ZyuNMT7jRAfrH3abWJPkxVeeM7BDKsXTg@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/03/12 14:40, Simon Glass wrote:
> Yes that is the reason, but ARM is not unique in this matter, and
> other archs do not have this check. I did suggest a solution in this
> thread involving putting the check in a C file instead of header. But
> it needs an arch-specific #define to specify the size expected by the
> assembler, and has the disadvantage of moving the check away from the
> assembler code.
>
> It's not that we don't want this check, more that it is not essential
> (since there is currently no mismatch), it is causing problems and it
> is risky to try to solve this problem some other way at this late
> stage in 3.2. So the easiest thing is to remove it, to match other
> archs.
Fair enough. I now see the other thread where this has all been
discussed. Sorry for the noise.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-03 18:44 [PATCH] ARM: Remove BUILD_BUG_ON from asm/bug.h Simon Glass
2012-01-03 19:39 ` Olof Johansson
2012-01-03 19:50 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-03 22:33 ` Stephen Boyd
2012-01-03 22:40 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-03 23:26 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
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