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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To:     David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: remove RELOC_HIDE on __pa_symbol
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On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 10:15:04PM -0700, David Daney wrote:

>  On 08/08/2010 12:57 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> >remove unneccessary use of RELOC_HIDE(). It does simple addition of ptr and
> >offset and in this case (offset 0) does practically nothing. It does NOT do
> >anything with linker relocation.
> >
> 
> Maybe you could explain in more detail the problems you are having
> with the current definition of __pa_symbol().  I would be hesitant
> to change this bit of black magic unless there is a concrete problem
> you are trying to solve.

RELOC_HIDE was originally added by 6007b903dfe5f1d13e0c711ac2894bdd4a61b1ad
(lmo) rsp. 8431fd094d625b94d364fe393076ccef88e6ce18 (kernel.org).  A
discussion can be found in lkml posting
a2ebde260608230500o3407b108hc03debb9da6e62c@mail.gmail.com> which is
archived at

    http://lists.linuxcoding.com/kernel/2006-q3/msg17360.html

I felt this was dubious by the time it was added and probably should go?

  Ralf