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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:22:46AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think we can realistically blacklist gcc-4.9.{0,1,2,3},
> gcc-5.{0,1,2,3}.* and gcc-6.0 and require everyone to upgrade to compilers
> that have not been released yet in order to build a linux-4.6 kernel.

Agreed.  What about just removing the wrappers?  They seem fairly
pointless to start with.