Re: 2.6.23-rc1: BUG_ON in kmap_atomic_prot()

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > So maybe I'm old-fashioned and crazy, but "readability of the asm result" 
> > actually is a worthwhile goal. Not because we care directly, but because 
> > I'd like to encourage people to do it, due to the *indirect* benefits.
> 
> This would lead to people trying to optimize code for one gcc version - 
> and the code might stay this way for 10 years.

No. The fact is, code that is easy to optimize is easy to optimize.

It has _nothing_ to do with gcc versions. 

		Linus
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