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 <jpoim...@redhat.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
