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SubjectRe: Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIOtestingon2.6.0-test7-mm1)
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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