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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:30:22AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 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. :)

Fine, dueling arches, who wins?  :)

So, what do I do, just ignore the patch?  Or do you have a fix?

thanks,

greg k-h