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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] offer CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE only if EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:44:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051214224406.GI23349@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512141429030.3292@g5.osdl.org>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:36:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > What about marking it as EXPERIMENTAL?
> 
> It's not experimental on other architectures, where it is always used.
> 
> The best option _may_ be to do something like this, where we use that 
> "depends on" to set the expectations, and people shouldn't see it unless 
> they ask for EXPERIMENTAL.
>...

My patch has the advantage that it doesn't allow the broken 
CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y setting on ARM if !EXPERIMENTAL.

> 		Linus
>...

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-14 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-14 19:10 [2.6 patch] fix the EMBEDDED menu Adrian Bunk
2005-12-14 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-14 22:13   ` [2.6 patch] offer CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE only if EXPERIMENTAL Adrian Bunk
2005-12-14 22:18     ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-14 22:28       ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-15  0:40         ` Dave Jones
2005-12-15  5:24           ` David S. Miller
2005-12-15 15:01           ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-12-15 17:35             ` Dave Jones
     [not found]             ` <7c3341450601191017o796faf45r2cc5c8e544dcfe11@mail.gmail.com>
2006-01-19 19:13               ` Dave Jones
2005-12-15 19:20         ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-12-14 22:22     ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-14 22:26       ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-14 22:30       ` Russell King
2005-12-14 22:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-14 22:44       ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-12-14 22:46         ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-14 23:32         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-14 23:43           ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-15  6:45           ` David S. Miller
2005-12-14 23:48       ` David S. Miller
2006-01-19 17:59       ` Eric Lammerts
2005-12-14 22:17   ` [2.6 patch] fix the EMBEDDED menu Russell King
2005-12-14 22:24     ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-17 21:20     ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-15 13:01   ` Rogério Brito

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