Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-13 00:31]:
> > /usr/include/asm/cpu-features.h:15:35: error: cpu-feature-overrides.h: No 
> > such file or directory
> > In file included from /usr/include/linux/bitops.h:77,
> 
> This is because the mips/mipsel kernel headers don't ship a generic
> cpu-feature-overrides.h file.  About 5 packages fail to build this way
> on mips/mipsel.  I'm not quite sure what to do about it.  Personally,
> I think those packages shouldn't rely on this header, but maybe we
> should provide it... Thiemo, what do you think?

Using this header in userspace is a bug. It might work for other
architectures if you are lucky, but it won't work on mips, where
the bitops implementation depends on specific CPU features.

Just take set_bit as example, it disables/enables interrupts for the
atomics emulation case.


Thiemo


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