Re: [PATCH 18 of 20] ipath - kbuild infrastructure

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On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 04:35:48PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>...
> --- /dev/null	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970 +0000
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/Makefile	Thu Mar  9 16:17:00 2006 -0800
> @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
> +EXTRA_CFLAGS += -O3

I'm still a bit surprised, since in the rest of the kernel we are even 
going from -O2 to -Os for getting better performance.

Robert said he wanted to post some numbers showing that -O3 is 
measurably better for you [1], but I haven't seen them.

> +_ipath_idstr:="PathScale $(shell date +%F)"
> +EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DIPATH_IDSTR='$(_ipath_idstr)' -DIPATH_KERN_TYPE=0
>...

UTS_VERSION is already available and printed at the top of dmesg.
I don't see the point in printing it a second time.

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/17/115

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