From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rdreier@cisco.com, mingo@elte.hu,
ian.campbell@citrix.com, jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com,
deller@gmx.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kyle@mcmartin.ca, randolph@tausq.org, sam@ravnborg.org,
dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:14:08 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081231.141408.60544902.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812311318420.5086@localhost.localdomain>
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:22:53 -0800 (PST)
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Adrian claimed that it was gcc-4.1.0 and 4.1.1 only. He proposed
> > banning them: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/5/444
>
> If it really is just those releases, then yes, considering the number of
> cases we apparently have, and considering how ugly it is in some cases to
> move the weak function anywhere else, maybe banning those versions is the
> proper thing to do.
>
> It probably won't hurt very many people - yeah, some people will be forced
> to upgrade, but I have this memory of early 4.1 having had other bugs
> anyway, so it's probably a good idea.
I think this is probably the best way to handle this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-29 20:34 [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 2) Helge Deller
2008-12-29 20:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] module.c: fix module loading failure of large " Helge Deller
[not found] ` <20081230180724.GA15235@bombadil.infradead.org>
2008-12-30 18:10 ` Kyle McMartin
2008-12-30 18:18 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-30 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] module.c: fix module loading failure of large modules (take 3) Helge Deller
2008-12-29 20:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] parisc: fix module loading failure of large modules (take 2) Helge Deller
2008-12-30 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] parisc: fix module loading failure of large modules (take 3) Helge Deller
2008-12-30 22:45 ` [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 2) Rusty Russell
2008-12-30 23:02 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-31 4:08 ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-31 11:31 ` [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) Helge Deller
2008-12-31 11:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] parisc: fix module loading failure of large modules Helge Deller
2008-12-31 13:32 ` [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) Rusty Russell
2008-12-31 14:13 ` Helge Deller
2009-01-01 0:52 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-01 12:02 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-31 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 17:36 ` Roland Dreier
2008-12-31 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 18:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 11:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-31 18:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 21:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 22:14 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-02 11:55 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 13:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-02 15:21 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Remove gcc 4.1.0 quirk from init/main.c Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 18:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 16:49 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1 Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 17:54 ` [PATCH] Disallow gcc versions 3.{0,1} Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 17:58 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1 Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 19:54 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-02 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 17:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 18:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 18:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-02 18:51 ` Al Viro
2009-01-02 19:14 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-02 22:52 ` Al Viro
2009-01-03 14:03 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-01-02 18:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 18:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 18:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 19:05 ` Detlef Riekenberg
2009-01-02 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-01-02 22:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 17:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-01 14:24 ` [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) Ingo Molnar
2009-01-01 16:37 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 17:39 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-31 18:24 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-31 22:16 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-01 7:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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