Re: [PATCH] i386: don't consider regparm EXPERIMENTAL anymore

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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:53:53PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>   [This might be a tad premature given recent tail-call fixups?]
> 
> ---
> 
> Drop EXPERIMENTAL status from REGPARM as a lot of people seem to use
> it and it seems to be pretty stable these days.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <[email protected]>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
> index 5b1a7d4..2b8657d 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
> @@ -660,8 +660,7 @@ config BOOT_IOREMAP
>  	default y
>  
>  config REGPARM
> -	bool "Use register arguments (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> -	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> +	bool "Use register arguments"
>  	default n
>  	help
>  	Compile the kernel with -mregparm=3. This uses a different ABI

You should make such patches against -mm (or at least against a current 
Linus' tree).

The dependency on EXPERIMENTAL was removed more than two months ago in 
Linus' tree (and at the same time the default was changed to "y").

cu
Adrian

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