linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/raid6: correctly check for assembler capabilities

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Message-ID: <20150128160231.58be1f9b@notabene.brown>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:02:31 +1100
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, mingo@...e.hu, hpa@...or.com,
	james.t.kukunas@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/raid6: correctly check for assembler capabilities

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:16:59 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
> > Just like for AVX2 (which simply needs an #if -> #ifdef conversion),
> > SSSE3 assembler support should be checked for before using it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> > Cc: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@...ux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/Makefile       |    1 +
> 
> For the x86 part:
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> 
> This should go through the raid tree.

Thanks.  Applied to the raid tree.

NeilBrown


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