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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:22:46 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, 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>, 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 Monday 25 April 2016 20:37:31 James Bottomley wrote: > 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. I don't think we can realistically blacklist gcc-4.9.{0,1,2,3}, gcc-5.{0,1,2,3}.* and gcc-6.0 and require everyone to upgrade to compilers that have not been released yet in order to build a linux-4.6 kernel. Arnd
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