On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 01:54:07PM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:46:22AM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: > >> Isolate the SRCU functions and data structures within CONFIG_SRCU so that > >> there > >> is a compile time failure if srcu is used when not enabled. This was > >> decided to > >> be better than waiting until link time for a failure to occur. > > > > Why? > > This is part of the kernel tinification efforts. The first patch was > posted here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/4/848. This patch enables a > compile time failure instead of a link time failure.
can't be arsed to click. again, why does it matter when it fails, neither stages produces a working kernel so tinification cannot be the purpose. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
