linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-mm1 - regression- PowerPC link failure at arch/powerpc/kernel/head

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Date:	Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:05:58 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-mm1 - regression- PowerPC link failure at
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:12:38 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> After the bisecting, i found that the patch git-net.patch is the cause for the link failure.

The actual cause is my patch to mark some things in head_64.S as
init_refok.  I have a test patch which I will tidy up and post soon.
However, even with that fixed, I am running into a linker bug which Alan
Modra is looking into.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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