From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
kaos@ocs.com.au, marcelo@conectiva.com.br,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.16 for pointers to __devexit functions
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 04:41:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0F3D49.757F8AFD@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011206.001423.118949508.davem@redhat.com> <11777.1007619756@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <3C0F27CA.59C22DEF@mandrakesoft.com> <15133.1007631619@redhat.com>
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> davem@redhat.com said:
> > > Why not __attribute__((weak)) ?
> > This doesn't work on all platforms unfortunately :(
>
> Doesn't work at all, or just doesn't work with the (current) minimum
> recommended compiler? We have to increase those minima at some point.
akpm and others will yell :)
egcs-1.1.2 compiles an x86 kernel far faster than newer compilers...
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-06 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-06 6:22 [patch] 2.4.16 for pointers to __devexit functions Keith Owens
2001-12-06 8:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-06 8:14 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-06 9:40 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-06 9:41 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-12-06 10:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-06 9:50 ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-12-06 10:15 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-06 10:22 ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-12-06 9:54 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-06 16:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-06 16:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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