From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ARM PIC problems with new decompressor code Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:43:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20100302144304.928df4c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20100226081926.GA3511@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <4B87907B.7080008@knaff.lu> <20100228154908.GB11343@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:55375 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751020Ab0CBWnP (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:43:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100228154908.GB11343@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Russell King Cc: Alain Knaff , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:49:08 +0000 Russell King 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.