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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Kaj-Michael Lang <milang@tal.org>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: cpu_has_llsc cleanup broke compilation.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:43:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817074307.GA21407@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001901c48427$6272acd0$54dc10c3@amos>

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:56:53AM +0300, Kaj-Michael Lang wrote:

> The "using cpu_has_llsc cleanup all users of ll/sc and lld/scd." broke
> compilation:
> 
>   CC      arch/mips/kernel/offset.s
> In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:35,
>                  from include/linux/bitops.h:4,

Clearly a kernel bug - but one that also shows poor maintenance of your
target.  It should define cpu_has_llsc which it doesn't, so the kernel
will use generic code and deciede at runtime it should use ll/sc.  I'm
fixing this problem but you really should fix your target also.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-17  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-17  6:56 cpu_has_llsc cleanup broke compilation Kaj-Michael Lang
2004-08-17  7:43 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-08-17  8:46   ` Kaj-Michael Lang

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