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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: alpha fp-emu vs module refcounting
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:09:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040516140940.A16850@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040516164420.A950@den.park.msu.ru>; from ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru on Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:44:20PM +0400

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:44:20PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:04:35PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Well, still false positives in grep.  What about this patch to simply
> > remove any traces of CONFIG_MATHEMU and modular math emulation?
> 
> Personally, I'm fine with it.
> 
> Yet another simple solution would be just to remove refcounting and
> only allow modular build of math-emu when CONFIG_SMP=n, which is
> safe vs module unload and still fine for debugging.

UP is not safe vs module unloading per se.  Especially not with
CONFIG_PREEMPT.  I'd say just apply the patch and if someone badly needs
modular mathemu for debugging he/she can apply some local hack.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-16 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-07 11:02 alpha fp-emu vs module refcounting Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-07 14:32 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-05-07 14:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-07 22:37     ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-05-07 22:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-07 22:51         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-05-16 10:04           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-16 12:44             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-05-16 13:09               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-05-17 22:39               ` Richard Henderson

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