linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a

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Date:	Sun, 13 May 2007 11:56:44 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...il.nowhere.org>
Subject: Re: Please revert 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:49:28PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> The change:
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
> +#define __INIT		.section	".text","ax"
> +#define __INITDATA	.section	".data","aw"
> +#else
>  #define __INIT		.section	".init.text","ax"
> -#define __FINIT		.previous
>  #define __INITDATA	.section	".init.data","aw"
> +#endif
> +#define __FINIT		.previous
> 
> breaks ARM, since the ARM startup code moves from the start of the image
> to somewhere in the middle of the kernel image.  (That's trivially fixable.)

Although I've worked around this, I still would like this fixed.
Prarit's produced a patch (mail attached) which should fix it,
can we get it merged please?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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