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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Please pull powerpc.git for_paulus branch (fwd)
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> although I still don't understand
> why using .comm in assembler code is suddenly verboten...

If a kernel module refers to a common symbol things go boom.
modpost complains about it, it isn't smart enough to see
that there is no problem here.


Segher