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Date:	Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:08:57 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, peterz@...radead.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, tglx@...utronix.de,
	andi@...stfloor.org, roland@...hat.com, rth@...hat.com,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	avi@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net, sam@...nborg.org,
	michael@...erman.id.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static_branch()

On 01/05/2011 12:07 PM, David Daney wrote:
> 
> But I am guessing that neither you, nor Linus, regularly build MIPS 
> kernels with GCC-4.5.x *and* jump label support enabled.  So how would 
> such semantic conflict ever be detected?  I would expect the conflict to 
> first occur when Linus pulls Ralf's tree.
> 
> I don't expect anybody to magically fix such things, so whatever 
> happens, I will test it and submit patches if required.
> 

If Ralf knows to expect them, then Ralf can take corrective actions as
he thinks is appropriate.

	-hpa
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