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From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To:	"P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>
Cc:	MIPS Linux List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Fixes for uaccess.h with gcc >= 4.0.1
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:18:38PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote:

> On Monday 23 January 2006 5:05 pm, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> > I'd appreciate if somebody with gcc 4.0.1 could test this kernel patch
> > below.
> >
> >   Ralf
> Is that for 2.4? 

2.4 is a no go for all architectures with gcc >= 4.0.0 and in case of MIPS
even gcc 3.4 is somewhat dubious.

> 2.6 doesn't seem to have that problem..

It's probably a matter of configuration then.  Basically with our current
uaccess.h and gcc >= 4.0.1 the attempt to pass a pointer to a const
variable as the pointer argument to get_user or __get_user will blow up.
It's always been a bug - but gcc before 4.0.1 were accepting this
silently.

  Ralf