Re: [PATCH] Gerd Hoffman's move-vsyscall-into-user-address-range patch

Andrew Morton
2006-05-22T17:54:08Z

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> is it really a big problem to add "vdso=0" to the long list of
> requirements you need to run a 2.6 kernel on an old distribution (or to
> disable CONFIG_VDSO)? FC1 wasnt even 2.6-ready, it used a 2.4 kernel!

I assume that FC1-using people aren't the only ones who will be affected by
this. We just don't know.

Oh well. One way of finding out is to ship the thing ;)

I seem to have lost the vdso=0 patch and the CONFIG_VDSO patch. Resend,
please?