2.2.2 compilation errors

Martin Costabel costabel at wanadoo.fr
Sat Feb 27 05:18:51 EST 1999


Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> On 26-Feb-99 Martin Costabel wrote:
> >
> > This bug was introduced deliberately by Linus.
> > It was fixed for ppc yesterday by Paul Mackerras and Gary Thomas.
> >
> 
> While I enjoy notoriety as much as the next guy, I must point out that I
> did not actively participate in this fix :-)

I am of course sorry about this, but I have an excuse. What I wrote
comes directly from the source. I quote:

root[225]#head include/asm-ppc/semaphore-helper.h 
#ifndef _PPC_SEMAPHORE_HELPER_H
#define _PPC_SEMAPHORE_HELPER_H

/*
 * SMP- and interrupt-safe semaphores..
 *
 * (C) Copyright 1996 Linus Torvalds
 * Adapted for PowerPC by Gary Thomas and Paul Mackerras
 */

--
Martin



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