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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707261119040.3442@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot()
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > So maybe I'm old-fashioned and crazy, but "readability of the asm result"
> > actually is a worthwhile goal. Not because we care directly, but because
> > I'd like to encourage people to do it, due to the *indirect* benefits.
>
> This would lead to people trying to optimize code for one gcc version -
> and the code might stay this way for 10 years.
No. The fact is, code that is easy to optimize is easy to optimize.
It has _nothing_ to do with gcc versions.
Linus
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