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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-aa1 questions.
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:58:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021203205830.A25661@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1038948847.1772.7.camel@UberGeek>; from austin@coremetrics.com on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:54:08PM -0600

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:54:08PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> what do the following patches actually *fix*?
> 
> 00_backout-gcc-3_0-patch-1
> 00_gcc-30-volatile-xtime-1
> 
> I'm trying to get 2.4.20 patched up by using the -aa split patches for
> 2.4.20 and I'm incorporating only the things I want, but I use gcc 3.2
> for compiling, and these confused me a bit.

Oooh,  I had lengthy discussion with andrea on those two.  These patches
are a) grossly misnamed and b) should be one.  They change xtime to a volatile
because andrea thinks that's safer.

The background on the silly naming is that earlier 2.4 kernels had xtime
not volatile but the prototype (or vice versa) and gcc3 didn't like that.

So the best idea would be to merge them into 00_xtime_volatile-1 if
you want to keep them.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-03 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-03 20:54 2.4.20-aa1 questions Austin Gonyou
2002-12-03 20:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-12-03 21:01   ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-03 21:32     ` [PATCH] 00_xtime_volatile-1 GrandMasterLee

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