linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix build with older binutils andconsolidate linker script

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:14:05 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix build with older binutils
	andconsolidate linker script


* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com> wrote:

> >>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> 25.08.09 15:56 >>>
> >* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com> wrote:
> >> Sorry for having forgotten to do so before submitting the first 
> >> time (I know I had intended to).
> >
> >This happens. I'm still unsure whether we can do it in .31.0 or need 
> >to delay it to .31.1 via a -stable backport tag. One more problem 
> >with it and i think we'll need to delay it - it's just too large and 
> >changes too many aspects of the linker script.
> >
> >Would it be possible to split it into two pieces: 'minimal fix' and 
> >'clean up' portions?
> 
> Besides being cumbersome, that would make it even larger, so I'd 
> say that's not worth it.

I mean the two patches yield the same end result. The first one 
(which is smaller, hopefully) gets committed to x86/urgent, the 
second one (the cleanups and other non-essentials) gets pushed 
upstream in .32.

	Ingo
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