On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:37:47PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Hmm, 2.5.x is supposed to guarantee most (if not all) of the
> preconditions the code here is trying to (re)establish. Probably the
> only use of not ripping out the 4GB spanning code and segment count
> checks is to keep driver versions synched. As it stands, this doesn't
> compile and if ever invoked the code not needed for 2.5 will not behave
> as expected (though thankfully a nop). Maybe a (shudder) #ifdef to rip
> out the overhead for 2.5 should be added esp. as post gcc-3.0 probably
> can't compile earlier kernels anyway.
Clarification: the code before my patch doesn't compile with gcc-3.3;
the code after it does. Mutatis mutandis with respect to the unexpected
behavior.
-- wli
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