Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:34:28 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIOtestingon2.6.0-test7-mm1) |
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:46:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > > -Os has it's benefits on some systems, so it shouldn't be totally hidden > > under EMBEDDED. OTOH, it's less tested, so only people who know what > > they are doing should use it (EXPERIMENTAL plus help text). > > It causes kernels to crash on a major linux distribution. We need to > either make it very hard to turn on, or just forget it altogether.
Looking at the source RPM, it seems e.g. gcc bug #8746 "gcc miscompiles Linux kernel ppa driver on x86" (fixed in gcc 3.2.3) is also unfixed in the gcc in RedHat 9.0 ...
cu Adrian
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