From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tridge@samba.org, Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check compiler version, SMP and PREEMPT.
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:19:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030113151901.GA28149@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030113051434.DC2092C09F@lists.samba.org>
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:13:19PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Linus, please apply if you agree.
>
> Tridge reported getting burned by gcc 3.2 compiled (Debian) XFree
> modules not working on his gcc 2.95-compiled kernel. Interestingly,
> (as Tridge points out) modversions probably would not have caught the
> change in spinlock size, since the ioctl takes a void*, not a
> structure pointer...
> D: and compiler version (spinlocks change size on UP with gcc major,
> D: at least).
Why does this happen? It doesn't look like it should, but I only
skimmed the headers checking...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-13 5:13 [PATCH] Check compiler version, SMP and PREEMPT Rusty Russell
2003-01-13 5:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-13 6:51 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-13 15:48 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-14 0:21 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-13 5:33 ` Keith Owens
2003-01-13 9:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-01-13 15:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-01-13 15:37 ` Kai Germaschewski
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