On 11/27/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: > > > On 11/26/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The model(small) attribute is not supported by gcc 4.X. The tests > > > will always be negative today. > > > > What was the rationale for removing this attribute? > > The code is then similar across all architectures and can be moved into > generic code.
Uniformity for the sake of uniformity? The small data addressing is really elegant and I don't think it should be dropped just for the sake of uniformity. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/