Re: [PATCH -tip -v4] irq_work: generic hard-irq context callbacks

Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-09-15T19:31:04Z

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 17:10, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> 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.

As long as "the fact" is linux-next and not Linus' tree, we can live
with that ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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