netdev - Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-02-27

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Date:	Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:51:12 +0100
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-02-27

On Saturday 01 March 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > This version seems to work, but it is a bit chatty when CROSS_COMPILE
> > is set and you build lots of modules...thoughts?
> 
> We cannot use CROSS_COMPILE to detect a cross build as CROSS_COMPILE
> is used used to select different gcc versions, cccache etc.
> The only relaiably way to detect a cross build is to check
> is ARCH != modified uname -m arch.
> So this check would have to be done in the top-level Makefile.
> 
> And that for shaving 6 bytes of a structure..

Wrong. For maintaining userspace ABI compatibility.
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