On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > In an __init function, have some code that will trigger the bug.
> > This can be used to disable Reiserfs if the compiler was bad.
> > Then the admin gets a printk() and the Reiserfs mount fails.
>
> Thats actually quite doable. I'll see about dropping the test into -ac that
> way.

It would actually be nice to have a whole collect of compiler tests in the
kernel; whenever we fall over a compiler bug add the test and leave it in.
Possibly as a separate block of the code.

One thing to remember is not to test for compiler versions; versions which
cause problems on x86 might work fine on real systems and the otherway
round.

Dave

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