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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
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Subject: Re: binutils bug workaround
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:53:34PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:

> > 	This patch move the declaration of kswapd_wait as a workaround to
> > this compiler bug. This probably affects all mips64 kernels.
> 
> Shouldn't you fix the assmbler instead?

I absolutely agree.  The only thing I'd like to add is a some code that makes
the kernel panic if built with broken binutils.

  Ralf