From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:51506 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751627AbcBOP10 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:27:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [added to the 4.1 stable tree] powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling To: Michael Ellerman , stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org References: <1455117136-28870-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <1455117136-28870-130-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <1455515928.3738.6.camel@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Alan Modra , Anton Blanchard From: Sasha Levin Message-ID: <56C1EE3C.5040805@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:26:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1455515928.3738.6.camel@ellerman.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/15/2016 12:58 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 10:10 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > >> From: Alan Modra >> >> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any >> objections, please let us know. >> >> =============== >> >> [ Upstream commit c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 ] >> >> PowerPC64 uses the symbol .TOC. much as other targets use >> _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. It identifies the value of the GOT pointer (or in > > > Please drop this commit, it requires a corresponding change to depmod which we > need to get accepted first. Dropped from both 4.1 and 3.18. Thanks! Thanks, Sasha