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From: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas@biessmann.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas@biessmann.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	"Jochen Friedrich" <jochen@scram.de>,
	"Samuel Ortiz" <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mod/file2alias: make modpost compile on darwin again
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:28:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F45DC99.1050405@biessmann.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nui5uv2.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>


On 23.02.12 00:08, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:55:35 +0100, Andreas Bießmann <andreas@biessmann.de> wrote:
>> commit e49ce14150c64b29a8dd211df785576fa19a9858 breaks cross compiling
>> the linux kernel on darwin hosts.
>> This fix introduce some minimal glue to adopt linker section handling
>> for darwin hosts.
> 
> Really?

Yes.

> Yes, I assumed an ELF host.  There's a portable way of doing this, but
> it's damn ugly (see http://ccodearchive.net/info/autodata.html).

I stumbled over some other code snippet [1] when searching for a solution.

> Oh, and checkpatch.pl is wrong, the code was fine.

Sorry for that. I was running checkpatch.pl as dutiful patch submitter
and that complained. Should I provide another version with 'checkpatch'
adoptions changed back?

> If noone has strong opinions about this, I'll apply it.

Would be great. I guess this is a rare case (cross compiling on darwin
host) but at least I and some of my colleagues do it from time to time.

Andreas
--
[1]
http://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn/!svn/bc/48/trunk/src/base/basictypes.h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-23  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-22 21:55 [PATCH] mod/file2alias: make modpost compile on darwin again Andreas Bießmann
2012-02-22 23:08 ` Rusty Russell
2012-02-23  6:28   ` Andreas Bießmann [this message]
2012-02-24  4:04     ` Rusty Russell
2012-02-24  7:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Andreas Bießmann
2012-02-25  3:51   ` Rusty Russell
2012-02-26 16:27   ` Bernhard Walle
2012-02-27  0:03     ` [PULL] modpost fix for cross-compiling Rusty Russell

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