linux-kernel - Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels

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Message-ID: <ada1w9hyrhn.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:40:36 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
Cc:	"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	"Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels

 > It doesn't seem to be something in .config. Do you know how to
 > reconfigure to get parameter passing put back like it was? Our
 > production applications have lots of assembly-language files
 > and I'm sure we are not going to be able to change all those!

32-bit x86 uses regparm=3 by default now since commit a1a70c25 ("i386:
always enable regparm"), which went in about a year ago.  To go back
to the old way, you'll just have to edit arch/x86/Makefile_32 (and
rebuild your whole kernel from a clean tree, obviously).

 - R.
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