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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
Cc: mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Section conflict compile failures in net
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:25:14 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110531.192514.33793304.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306892570.11897.35.camel@mulgrave.site>

From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:42:50 +0900

> It's really, as has been said, a compiler problem: the compiler is
> confused about the read only sections.  However, 4.2 is a pretty common
> compiler (especially for non-x86), so if the compiler can't do the read
> only section tracking, just not using the __devinitconst designation
> globally seems to be the best thing, just change it to __devinitdata
> instead.

I think I'm just going to do a full revert then.

You guys work out how to arrive at a solution that solves the problem
he was originally trying to solve, yet doesn't break this gcc-4.2
case.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1306445993.4048.58.camel@mulgrave.site>
     [not found] ` <20110527080728.GA2108@rere.qmqm.pl>
2011-05-27 23:04   ` Section conflict compile failures in net James Bottomley
2011-05-28  9:05     ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-31 22:45 ` David Miller
2011-06-01  1:27   ` Michał Mirosław
2011-06-01  2:24     ` David Miller
2011-06-01  1:42   ` James Bottomley
2011-06-01  2:25     ` David Miller [this message]
2011-06-18 17:06     ` Michał Mirosław

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