Re: 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot()

Linus Torvalds
2007-07-26T18:20:28Z

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > So maybe I'm old-fashioned and crazy, but "readability of the asm result"
> > actually is a worthwhile goal. Not because we care directly, but because
> > I'd like to encourage people to do it, due to the *indirect* benefits.
>
> This would lead to people trying to optimize code for one gcc version -
> and the code might stay this way for 10 years.

No. The fact is, code that is easy to optimize is easy to optimize.

It has _nothing_ to do with gcc versions.

Linus