From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752796Ab1AEUKU (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:10:20 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50268 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752303Ab1AEUKT (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:10:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4D24CFD9.20805@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:08:57 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Daney CC: Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Jason Baron , Ralf Baechle , peterz@infradead.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, tglx@linutronix.de, andi@firstfloor.org, roland@redhat.com, rth@redhat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, avi@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net, sam@ravnborg.org, michael@ellerman.id.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static_branch() References: <2d8c38bd7ca93e162aedb8e7acfc8bdb96d85de2.1294239591.git.jbaron@redhat.com> <4D24AB1B.2010209@caviumnetworks.com> <1294249439.26623.35.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <4D24BED1.5000900@zytor.com> <20110105191424.GA7820@elte.hu> <4D24C756.9070302@caviumnetworks.com> <20110105195043.GA9399@elte.hu> <4D24CF95.5090006@caviumnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <4D24CF95.5090006@caviumnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/05/2011 12:07 PM, David Daney wrote: > > But I am guessing that neither you, nor Linus, regularly build MIPS > kernels with GCC-4.5.x *and* jump label support enabled. So how would > such semantic conflict ever be detected? I would expect the conflict to > first occur when Linus pulls Ralf's tree. > > I don't expect anybody to magically fix such things, so whatever > happens, I will test it and submit patches if required. > If Ralf knows to expect them, then Ralf can take corrective actions as he thinks is appropriate. -hpa