From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754532Ab0IOPm3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:42:29 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:57231 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753431Ab0IOPm0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:42:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip -v4] irq_work: generic hard-irq context callbacks From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andi Kleen Cc: Huang Ying , Martin Schwidefsky , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , paulus , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , dhowells , Russell King , Kyle McMartin , davem , Linux-Arch , Matt Fleming In-Reply-To: <37141.91.60.150.116.1284563403.squirrel@www.firstfloor.org> References: <37141.91.60.150.116.1284563403.squirrel@www.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:41:57 +0200 Message-ID: <1284565317.3764.848.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 17:10 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:29 +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > > > >> I uses the cross build tool from: > >> > >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ > > > > I'm not familiar with those, I build my own gcc-4.5.1 toolchains for all > > targets that would actually build a gcc toolchains, for those that don't > > I simply don't care about. > > I don't think it's a reasonable requirement to have every contributor > compile on all architectures. If that was a general requirement > soon nobody would send patches anymore. > > Cross arch breakages happen rarely and can be usually repaired after > the fact. I think its reasonable to at least try and compile bits if you explicitly touch these architectures like the patch under consideration does.