Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:42:57 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation |
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > - i introduced a 'type-sensitive' macro wrapper that switches down() > > (and the other APIs) to either to the assembly variant (if the > > variable's type is struct compat_semaphore), or switches it to the new > > generic mutex (if the type is struct semaphore), at build-time. There > > is no runtime overhead due to this build-time-switching. > > Didn't that drop compatibility with 2.95? The necessary builtins > are only in 3.x. > > Not that I'm not in favour - I would like to use C99 everywhere > and it would get of the ugly spinlock workaround for i386 > and x86-64 doesn't support earlier compilers anyways - > but others might not agree. >
2.95.x is basically buggered at present. There's one scsi driver which doesn't compile due to weird __VA_ARGS__ tricks and the rather useful scsi/sd.c is currently getting an ICE. None of the new SAS code compiles, due to extensive use of anonymous unions. The V4L guys are very good at exploiting the gcc-2.95.x macro expansion bug (_why_ does each driver need to implement its own debug macros?) and various people keep on sneaking in anonymous unions.
It's time to give up on it and just drink more coffee or play more tetris or something, I'm afraid. - 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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