From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>,
sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: i386-vmlinuxldss-distinguish-absolute-symbols.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:40:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1wtjenzcq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051111222627.24cf41f7.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:26:27 -0800")
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder why this patch
>> (i386-vmlinuxldss-distinguish-absolute-symbols.patch) isn't merged?
>
> Sam said scary things about it at the time but yes, it seems that things
> ended up OK.
>
> But Eric hasn't come back with the patch (>3 months) so perhaps its not
> very important, or is unneeded?
Mostly this is a piece of making the kernel relocatable, and I
have been holding off on that set of patches until I can get
the rest of the patches I have worked on for kexec on panic
merged.
I can only track so many bug reports at a time :)
This patch stands by itself so it should not be a problem.
One of the things I discovered when working with this patch is
that ld when can't actually cope with absolute symbols in a shared
library and will try and relocate them anyway. I have code in my
tree that works around that particular ld bug but it is nowhere near
as nice as just specifying -shared when linking. This patch is indeed
needed for that.
Eric
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2005-11-12 6:03 ` i386-vmlinuxldss-distinguish-absolute-symbols.patch added to -mm tree Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-12 6:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-12 6:40 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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