Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:35 -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote:BTW, why is Mandriva the only distro to turn OFF REGPARM?. Again, I think distros shouldn't be given an option to turn it off if its a good thing to have.
why not? It's not like it's a dramatic change of API after all... (and even if it were...) external modules shouldn't care, they really really should inherit the cflags from the kernel's makefiles at which point.. the thing is moot.
Speaking from personal experience...there are a LOT of 3rd party drivers out there that do not build their modules properly. It gets especially interesting when they want to have a single package support 2.4 and 2.6, and also link the result against an included binary blob.
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