Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix build with older binutils andconsolidate linker script

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> >>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 25.08.09 15:56 >>>
> >* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> >> Sorry for having forgotten to do so before submitting the first 
> >> time (I know I had intended to).
> >
> >This happens. I'm still unsure whether we can do it in .31.0 or need 
> >to delay it to .31.1 via a -stable backport tag. One more problem 
> >with it and i think we'll need to delay it - it's just too large and 
> >changes too many aspects of the linker script.
> >
> >Would it be possible to split it into two pieces: 'minimal fix' and 
> >'clean up' portions?
> 
> Besides being cumbersome, that would make it even larger, so I'd 
> say that's not worth it.

I mean the two patches yield the same end result. The first one 
(which is smaller, hopefully) gets committed to x86/urgent, the 
second one (the cleanups and other non-essentials) gets pushed 
upstream in .32.

	Ingo