Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

[Paul Mackerras]

Jeff Garzik writes:
> Rene Rebe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc.vanilla    2005-03-02 
> > 16:44:56.407107752 +0100
> > +++ linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc    2005-03-02 
> > 16:45:22.424152560 +0100
> > @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
> >  int raid6_have_altivec(void)
> >  {
> >      /* This assumes either all CPUs have Altivec or none does */
> > -    return cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
> > +    return cur_cpu_spec[0]->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
> 
> 
> I nominate this as a candidate for linux-2.6.11 release branch.  :)

No.  Unfortunately if you fix ppc64 here you will break ppc, and vice
versa.  Yes, we are going to reconcile the cur_cpu_spec definitions
between ppc and ppc64. :)

Paul.
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