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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 3.18 059/101] x86/um: thin archives build
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 00:41:22 +0000
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com> wrote:

> From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 827880ec260ba048f95fe646b96a205c394fa0f0 ]
> 
> The linker does not like vdso-syms.lds in input archive files.
> Make it an extra-y instead.

I wouldn't say these should be needed on kernels without thin
archives build.

It shouldn't hurt, but no point risking stable breakage.

Thanks,
Nick