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Quality filter

Posted Jun 26, 2007 22:23 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
In reply to: Quality filter by lxoliva
Parent article: More quotes of the week - scenes from a flame war

> Fortunately I could not only modify the sources, but also use the
> resulting binary in the computers at my disposal. Yay! :-)
... Unfortunately, nobody could reproduce that binary with shipped
gcc, simply because FRV gcc support of constraints used in the
include/asm-frv/pgtable.h had been kept in hell-knows-which branch
in hell-knows-what repository for a long, long time...

Ironic, innit?

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Quality filter

Posted Jun 26, 2007 22:33 UTC (Tue) by lxoliva (subscriber, #40702) [Link]

What constraints are these? I'm not aware of any FR-V constraints I've added myself that haven't been contributed. Maybe someone else added them and forgot to submit them upstream such that I could approve them? Is that somehow my fault?

Quality filter

Posted Jun 26, 2007 23:36 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]

That would be "U". Compare the date when its use appeared in
the mainline kernel and the date when support went into released
gcc. I doubt that it had been your fault; just that mentioning
frv in that context was... unfortunate. Seriously, frv situation
had been extremely annoying for about a year, e.g. for cross-builds.