Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

Paul Mackerras
2005-03-03T22:36:24Z

Jeff Garzik writes:
> Rene Rebe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc.vanilla 2005-03-02
> > 16:44:56.407107752 +0100
> > +++ linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc 2005-03-02
> > 16:45:22.424152560 +0100
> > @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
> > int raid6_have_altivec(void)
> > {
> > /* This assumes either all CPUs have Altivec or none does */
> > - return cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
> > + return cur_cpu_spec[0]->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
>
>
> I nominate this as a candidate for linux-2.6.11 release branch. :)

No. Unfortunately if you fix ppc64 here you will break ppc, and vice
versa. Yes, we are going to reconcile the cur_cpu_spec definitions
between ppc and ppc64. :)

Paul.