From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965027AbVLNWqg (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:46:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965048AbVLNWqg (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:46:36 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:31503 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965027AbVLNWqf (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:46:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:46:36 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] offer CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE only if EXPERIMENTAL Message-ID: <20051214224636.GJ23349@stusta.de> References: <20051214191006.GC23349@stusta.de> <20051214140531.7614152d.akpm@osdl.org> <20051214221304.GE23349@stusta.de> <20051214224406.GI23349@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051214224406.GI23349@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:44:06PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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. s/CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y/CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n/ 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