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

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 01:35:16 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	"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 Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:22:46AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 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.

Agreed.  What about just removing the wrappers?  They seem fairly
pointless to start with.