Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1

Adrian Bunk
2005-04-30T18:58:42Z

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 02:30:57AM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On 4/30/05, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:16:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >...
> > > Changes since 2.6.12-rc2-mm3:
> > >...
> > > +x86-x86_64-deferred-handling-of-writes-to-proc-irq-xx-smp_affinitypatch-added-to-mm-tree.patch
> > >
> > > x86_64 updates
> > >...
> >
> > This patch contains at least two bugs:
> >
> > The static inline set_irq_info() is not available
> > for CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=n, resulting in the following warning:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > ...
> > CC arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.o
> > arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c: In function `set_ioapic_affinity_irq':
> > arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c:251: warning: implicit declaration of function `set_irq_info'
> > ...
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > The second bug is that although irq.h defines set_irq_info() as a static
> > inline, this patch adds an empty function to kernel/irq/manage.c .
> >
> > The second bug shadows the first bug, but both have to be fixed.
>
> IMHO, there are no bugs at all, or at least not the kind of bugs you think.

It depends on how you define "bug".

I agree it was perhaps a too harsh word.

What about "Code that could be improved."? ;-)

> Coywolf Qi Hunt

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Adrian

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