From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RE : 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 : REGPARAM forced => no external module with some object code only
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 13:03:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7lnng$4fo$2@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040505131809.10bdcae6.akpm@osdl.org>
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.
Yes, I think that should go into the 2.7 tree as soon as it opens. Of
course it wouldn't go in the 2.6 tree, that's stable, right?
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-09 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 11:56 RE : 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 : REGPARAM forced => no external module with some object code only Eric Valette
2004-05-05 12:09 ` Re " Eric Valette
2004-05-05 20:18 ` RE " Andrew Morton
2004-05-06 12:44 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2004-05-06 12:56 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-06 13:05 ` Eric Valette
2004-05-06 15:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09 17:03 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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