linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #12156] v2.6.28-rc2: x86

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Message-ID: <494F343C.1030602@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:31:24 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #12156] v2.6.28-rc2: x86_32 relocation regression?

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> not really a regression but a long-standing inconvenience/bug of the debug 
> symbols of relocatable kernels. (ever since relocatable kernels were added 
> in '06 or so.) Nevertheless we queued up a revert of the defconfig change 
> for .29, to not expose it in the defconfig:
> 
>  f269b07: x86: revert CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y defconfig change
> 
> so i think it can be taken off the regressions list.
> 

It's a bug, yes, not a regression.  It should be fixed if possible, but
it's not a regression nor a hideously critical issue.

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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