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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:50:34 +0930
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:54:32 am Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Actually, x86 was one of the archs which fucked us.  Richard Henderson and
> > I *had* this, but ld -shared without -fPIC helpfully tells you "you're doing
> > it wrong" on x86-64.
> 
> This complaint could easily be (have been) made optional.

Yep, I even had a patch.  And meanwhile we could have lived with -fPIC modules
with some loss of performance (I think).

But at some level the problems accumulate until you go "nice idea, let's go
do something else" :)

But don't let me discourage you!
Rusty.