linux-kernel - Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64N.0708031751490.28399@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>
Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:54:49 +0100 (BST)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Yinghai.Lu@....COM, Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@...ssonline.ch>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: REGRESSION: serial_cs broken by 8250 changes

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > We could use that to prevent init code to be called after code is freed.
> 
> If we can omit a function call without breaking anything then we shouldn't
> have been calling that function at all ;)

 Well, we can always put a couple of otherwise unneeded calls here and 
there to make the compiler happy to enjoy its freedom to produce code and 
exercise the calling convention rules set by the ABI before the actual 
use. ;-)

  Maciej
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