linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip -v4] irq_work: generic hard-irq context callbacks

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Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:30:56 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	paulus <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dhowells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>, davem <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip -v4] irq_work: generic hard-irq context callbacks

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 17:10, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> 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.

As long as "the fact" is linux-next and not Linus' tree, we can live
with that ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

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