Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:58:30 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-aa1 questions. |
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:54:08PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote: > what do the following patches actually *fix*? > > 00_backout-gcc-3_0-patch-1 > 00_gcc-30-volatile-xtime-1 > > I'm trying to get 2.4.20 patched up by using the -aa split patches for > 2.4.20 and I'm incorporating only the things I want, but I use gcc 3.2 > for compiling, and these confused me a bit.
Oooh, I had lengthy discussion with andrea on those two. These patches are a) grossly misnamed and b) should be one. They change xtime to a volatile because andrea thinks that's safer.
The background on the silly naming is that earlier 2.4 kernels had xtime not volatile but the prototype (or vice versa) and gcc3 didn't like that.
So the best idea would be to merge them into 00_xtime_volatile-1 if you want to keep them. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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