netdev - Re: [PATCH] lto, wan/sbni: Make inline assembler symbols visible and assembler global

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Date:	Tue, 6 Aug 2013 01:05:35 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ak@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lto, wan/sbni: Make inline assembler symbols visible
 and assembler global

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 03:33:23PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
> Date: Mon,  5 Aug 2013 15:18:14 -0700
> 
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> > 
> > - Inline assembler defining C callable code has to be global
> > - The function has to be visible
> > 
> > Do this in wan/sbni
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Please just make it use the standard lib/ CRC routines instead.

The problem is I don't have this hardware, and I don't think
I can do such a change without testing it.

FWIW my main interest here is to avoid this thing breaking
my allyesconfig build.

Could you please consider adding it?

If not I'll have to disable the driver in the LTO patchkit.

-Andi
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