linux-kernel - Re: [RFC, PATCH, v3.9] default exported asm symbols to zero

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Date:   Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:51:22 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH, v3.9] default exported asm symbols to zero

On Friday, December 2, 2016 1:59:15 PM CET Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> > With binutils-2.16 and before, a weak missing symbol was kept during the
> 
> 2.26?
> 
> > final link, and a missing CRC for an export would lead to that CRC
> > being treated as zero implicitly. With binutils-2.17, the crc
> 
> 2.27?'

Yes, serious version number deficiency on my end. Also 4.9 instead of 3.9
in the subject...

	Arnd