From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
tony.luck@intel.com, anton@samba.org, paulus@samba.org,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:50:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ADD9E9.8090908@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080208223341.GB15333@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into
> read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global
> generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for
> struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes compile
> failures due to 'section type conflict' in those rare cases where
> param_set/get are local functions.
>
> This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8964
In case you weren't aware already, people seem to think this is actually
a GCC bug (with a patch available):
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31490
Daniel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-09 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 22:33 [PATCH] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures Ivan Kokshaysky
2008-02-08 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-08 23:35 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2008-02-09 16:50 ` Daniel Drake [this message]
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