linux-kernel - Re: [000/121] 3.2.51-rc1 review

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Date:	Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:56:53 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [000/121] 3.2.51-rc1 review

On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 09:52 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 01:18 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> >> m68k-linux-ld: error: no memory region specified for loadable section
> >> `.note.gnu.build-id'
> >
> > I can't seem to find an explicit fix for that since v3.2.
> > Perhaps the fix is a side effect of f84f52a5c15db7d14a534815f27253b001735183
> > ("m68knommu: clean up linker script").
> >
> 
> Kind of. Turns out it requires the following patches.
> 
> 40c1b9cf (m68k: consolidate the vmlinux.lds linker scripts)
> ed865e31 (m68k: use non-MMU linker script for ColdFire MMU builds)
> f84f52a5 (m68knommu: clean up linker script)
> 
> With those patches applied, all my m68k builds (mmu and nommu) pass with 3.2.

I've queued these up for 3.2.  The first looks quite a big change in
terms of lines, but most of that is just renaming a file so I think it's
within the spirit of the stable rules.  The third is also pretty big as
m68knommu seems so broken in 3.2 that I suppose it is OK.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.

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