linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions

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Message-ID: <1461641851.2392.32.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:37:31 -0700
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, jamborm@....gnu.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@...gic.com>,
	qla2xxx-upstream@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions

On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 22:40 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > > > > > "Josh" == Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> writes:
> 
> Josh> Can you merge this patch for 4.6?
> 
> I am really not a big fan of working around compiler bugs in a device
> driver.

Me neither

> Are we sure there are no other get_unaligned_be64() calls in the
> kernel that suffer the same fate?

Agree, plus, as I've said before, we have 3-4 weeks before we go final,
so we still have some time before a decision has to be made.  It looks
like the gcc people already have a patch for the compiler, so the
distributions could just push that out through channels.

James