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From: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	"James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sparse Mailing-list <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:02:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5497691.DvuYhMxLoT@alarsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjynK7SSgTOvW7tfpFZZ0pzo67BsOsqtVHYtvju8F_bng@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, 2021-09-15 23:19 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, I didn't love any of the patches I saw for the qnx4 problem, so I
> silenced that warning with a new patch of my own. Like the sparc64
> case, the fix is to describe more extensively to the compiler what the
> code is actually doing.

thanks, looks good to me, too!

> Looking at the qnx4 code-base history, I don't think it has gotten any
> actual development outside of cleanups in the git history timeframe,
> which makes me suspect nobody uses this code.
> 
> But hey, maybe it just works so well for the very specialized user base ...

it's actually the latter (although I guess the user base is shrinking)

Cheers
Anders




  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-16  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15  3:52 [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  3:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] compiler.h: Introduce " Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  7:07   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-15  7:13   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-15  7:13     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-15 14:03     ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15 14:03       ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  3:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] net: i825xx: Use absolute_pointer for memcpy from fixed memory location Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  7:08   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-15  3:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] alpha: Move setup.h out of uapi Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  3:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] alpha: Use absolute_pointer to define COMMAND_LINE Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15 19:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 19:35   ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15 19:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 19:50       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 21:19         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-16  7:02           ` Anders Larsen [this message]
2021-09-16 16:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 20:30       ` Helge Deller
2021-09-15 22:33       ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-16 18:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18  9:51           ` Michael Cree
2021-09-18 13:11             ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-18 13:11               ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-18 17:04               ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 17:17                 ` Thorsten Glaser
2021-09-18 17:21                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 17:28                 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 20:26                 ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-18 20:26                   ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-18 20:46                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 21:12                     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 22:09                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-19 15:13                     ` Dave Taht
2021-09-19 15:13                       ` Dave Taht
2021-09-20 18:25                     ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-20 18:25                       ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-20 18:46                       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-20 18:59                         ` Matt Turner
2021-09-20 19:45                           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-21 19:13                         ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-21 19:13                           ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-21 20:42                           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-21 21:39                           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-22 20:50                             ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-22 20:50                               ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-23 19:57                               ` Newer kernels on the Jensen (was: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro) Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-25 21:01                                 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-09-26 11:26                                   ` Newer kernels on the Jensen (was: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-26 11:35                                     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-09-26 11:55                                       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-09-26 17:12                                         ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-26 17:16                                           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-10-02 15:30                                             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-10-18 15:37                                     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-10-19 19:46                                       ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-10-22  8:46                                         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-10-24  3:41                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-09-16 19:47         ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro Linus Torvalds
2021-09-16  0:34   ` Michael Cree

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