From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:54:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:33940 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1493264AbZIUUyn (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:54:43 +0200 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8LKtrgg024545; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:53 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8LKtqCw024543; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:52 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:52 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: Julia Lawall , dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/mips: remove duplicate structure field initialization Message-ID: <20090921205551.GA20341@linux-mips.org> References: <20090921192520.GB17310@linux-mips.org> <4AB7E0D1.10506@paralogos.com> <4AB7E50D.4090509@paralogos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB7E50D.4090509@paralogos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 24064 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:41:49PM -0700, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > Ha! Found the breakage. It wasn't a two-phase commit. It was just an > overworked mantainer in a hurry, in July 2007. See commit > 033890b084adfa367c544864451d7730552ce8bf An overworked maintainer in cooperation with a broken compiler. Worse - it's not the first time this type of bug strikes but probably this was never brought to the gcc maintainers' attention. Ralf