Re: module compiler version check still needed?

[Keith Owens]

Andi Kleen (on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:48:36 +0200) wrote:
>
>Does anybody know of any reason why we would still need the compiler version
>check during module loading? AFAIK on i386 it was only needed to handle
>2.95 (which got dropped) and on x86-64 it was never needed. Is there
>a need on any other architecture for it?

IA64 still needs the check.  include/asm-ia64/spinlock.h generates
different calls to the out of line spinlock handler, depending on the
version of gcc.

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