Re: RE : 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 : REGPARAM forced => no external module with some object code only

Andrew Morton
2004-05-06T15:21:58Z

"Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@mercury.d2dc.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:18:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr> wrote:
> > >
> > > The Changelog says nothing really important but forcing REGPARAM is
> > > rather important : it breaks any external module using object only code
> > > that calls a kernel function.
> >
> > This is why we should remove the option - to reduce the number of ways in
> > which the kernel might have been built. Yes, there will be a bit of
> > transition pain while these people catch up.
>
> Any guess on when REGPARAM and 4KSTACKS will end up in Linus' tree?

Tomorrow? Linus will probably have some opinions on that, but if we're
going to do this thing we need to do it early in the cycle.