From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:56:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A617E7.2060901@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701101131470.3594@woody.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Which is why "__init" is wrong. It causes the linker to either put it at
>> the end of the thing (which would break the SuSE tool). Alternatively it
>> causes section mismatch problems ("init" and "const" don't work that well
>> together), in which case it might work, but only due to toolchain bugs.
>>
>> Grr.
>
> Does anybody have the silly SuSE kernel version tool, and could test that
> without the "__init" it all actually works?
Ok, testing of this worked here across the board. All using the same
configs we used for the last round of testing on this issue. The main
problem machine ppc64 on SLES9 with CIFS enabled passes with this patch
plus __init removed.
Results on TKO.
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
-apw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-11 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-09 9:20 .version keeps being updated Jean Delvare
2007-01-09 9:32 ` Gene Heskett
2007-01-09 17:05 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-01-09 20:44 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-09 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-09 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-09 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-09 23:33 ` David Miller
2007-01-09 23:39 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-10 1:43 ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-01-10 8:53 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-10 16:52 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-01-10 17:05 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-10 11:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-10 13:45 ` Roman Zippel
2007-01-10 16:01 ` Olaf Hering
2007-01-10 17:10 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-10 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-10 19:31 ` Olaf Hering
2007-01-10 20:02 ` Olaf Hering
2007-01-10 22:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-10 23:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-11 13:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-11 13:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-11 17:39 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-11 18:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-10 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-10 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-10 21:20 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-01-11 10:56 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2007-01-11 12:38 ` Roman Zippel
2007-01-11 13:05 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-01-11 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-09 21:55 ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-01-10 7:34 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-09 23:25 ` Willy Tarreau
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