From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751190AbWE2TDK (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 15:03:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751194AbWE2TDJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 15:03:09 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:40457 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751190AbWE2TDI (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 15:03:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:03:07 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: don't consider regparm EXPERIMENTAL anymore Message-ID: <20060529190306.GD3955@stusta.de> References: <20060520025353.GE9486@taniwha.stupidest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060520025353.GE9486@taniwha.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:53:53PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > [This might be a tad premature given recent tail-call fixups?] > > --- > > Drop EXPERIMENTAL status from REGPARM as a lot of people seem to use > it and it seems to be pretty stable these days. > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood > > diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig > index 5b1a7d4..2b8657d 100644 > --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig > @@ -660,8 +660,7 @@ config BOOT_IOREMAP > default y > > config REGPARM > - bool "Use register arguments (EXPERIMENTAL)" > - depends on EXPERIMENTAL > + bool "Use register arguments" > default n > help > Compile the kernel with -mregparm=3. This uses a different ABI You should make such patches against -mm (or at least against a current Linus' tree). The dependency on EXPERIMENTAL was removed more than two months ago in Linus' tree (and at the same time the default was changed to "y"). cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed