From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6763 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2002 01:05:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6708 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2002 01:05:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.83.203) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 01:05:27 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (reddwarf.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.50]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA16910; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CC60200.FAB6F3B9@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:05:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Linux/Sparc patch 3 References: <20020419.155406.122216612.davem@redhat.com> <3CC0CA32.DB078FAC@redhat.com> <20020419.190143.102963762.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00896.txt.bz2 "David S. Miller" wrote: > > From: Michael Snyder > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:53:54 -0700 > > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > Another bug fix is that we need to make sure all registers > > are read before store takes place, thus we define > > CHILD_PREPARE_TO_STORE. All the BSD'ish Sparc ports set > > this as well, for the same reason. > > Seems perfectly reasonable. Is this also something > that should be done for all linuxen? > > No, it is a Sparc specific issue. Can I ask you to read my changes > when reviewing them? I describe the situation precisely in the > comment above this define, and I make it clear that this is a Sparc > specific issue. If my comment doesn't make this clear, show me how to > make it so. :-) David, There's nothing wrong with your comments or your coding skills, but you need to sit down and read a book on attitude (specifically, not copping one when you're asking for someone's time and energy). If I'd read this message earlier, I wouldn't have given you the several hours time that I already have today. No one here owes you anything, David. This is a volunteer project. Sincerely, Michael Snyder