Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

Alan Cox
2001-02-04T11:04:29Z

> > can bracket his code in 'if [ $TRUSTED = "y" ] ... fi', so if some driver-fs
> > fails with untrusted compilers it is just not selectable.
>
> What kind of crap is this?
> It is not the kernel's job to work around RedHat bugs.

The kernel actually works round gcc 2.7.2, egcs-1.1.2 and gcc-2.95 bugs, but
in this case having some CONFIG option and all the glue for it isnt right
especially because there _is_ a fixed compiler and the documentation tells
you to use 1.1.2 or 2.95 anyway