Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions

From: James Bottomley
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 23:37:39 EST


On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 22:40 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > > > > > "Josh" == Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Josh> Can you merge this patch for 4.6?
>
> I am really not a big fan of working around compiler bugs in a device
> driver.

Me neither

> Are we sure there are no other get_unaligned_be64() calls in the
> kernel that suffer the same fate?

Agree, plus, as I've said before, we have 3-4 weeks before we go final,
so we still have some time before a decision has to be made. It looks
like the gcc people already have a patch for the compiler, so the
distributions could just push that out through channels.

James