From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264357AbUEIQ5P (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2004 12:57:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264358AbUEIQ5O (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2004 12:57:14 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:16912 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264357AbUEIQ5N (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2004 12:57:13 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel 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 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <4098D65D.9010107@free.fr> <20040505131809.10bdcae6.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1084121648 4600 192.168.12.10 (9 May 2004 16:54:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20040505131809.10bdcae6.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Eric Valette 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 CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979