On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 14:58 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> > Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:41:09 -0800 > > > Until such time as the linux crosstools compilers are updated, > > (they seem stuck on 4.6.3 from 3 years ago) > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ > > I think the series is a trivial, small improvement. > > You are even admitting that even for your specific case you are > using 3+ year old compiler technology.
That's what I said. How is it an "admission"? Those are the kernel.org "recommended" cross-compilers. > These are slow paths, so correctness is the most important aspect. > > Converting these locations to consistently use eth_*() is fine, > but then "optimizing" a 6 by memset for configuration paths when > the compiler should be more than capable of doing this just fine > is not convincing at all to me. Swell, then perhaps you could simply skip 1/14. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
