Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip -v4] irq_work: generic hard-irq context callbacks | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:41:57 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 17:10 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:29 +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > > > >> I uses the cross build tool from: > >> > >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ > > > > I'm not familiar with those, I build my own gcc-4.5.1 toolchains for all > > targets that would actually build a gcc toolchains, for those that don't > > I simply don't care about. > > I don't think it's a reasonable requirement to have every contributor > compile on all architectures. If that was a general requirement > soon nobody would send patches anymore. > > Cross arch breakages happen rarely and can be usually repaired after > the fact.
I think its reasonable to at least try and compile bits if you explicitly touch these architectures like the patch under consideration does.
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