From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ARM PIC problems with new decompressor code
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:43:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100302144304.928df4c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100228154908.GB11343@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:49:08 +0000
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:12:27AM +0100, Alain Knaff wrote:
> > Yes, that should be fine. So it would be static in full kernel context
> > (initrd decompression) but global in preboot. As long as it doesn't clash
> > with other variables of the same name, but I think that's rather unlikely
> > in the "small" preboot environment.
>
> Here's a patch to this end. I decided to change the name of the
> define to something more sensible.
>
> Are we happy with this? Shall I queue it for merging?
I grabbed it, but you can preempt that by merging it if that's more
convenient.
> I'd be nice
> to get this into -stable as well as some other fixes for this feature.
>
I don't think I've seen any other fixes.
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2010-02-28 15:49 ` [PATCH] Fix ARM PIC problems with new decompressor code Russell King
2010-03-02 22:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-03-02 22:53 ` Russell King
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