linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs

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Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:40:51 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	tabbott@...lice.com, vda.linux@...glemail.com, hpa@...ux.intel.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 18:17, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 17:19, Michal Marek wrote:
>> On 28.10.2010 22:35, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:46:31AM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>>>> On 27.10.2010 20:23, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>>> can we get this change dropped from linux-next until someone gets a
>>>>> chance to fix it ?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I missed this thread. So your last patch
>>>> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/19/488) did fix the Blackfin build
>>>> failure? Can you submit it with a proper Signed-off-by and changelog?
>>>
>>> Did you see the patch I posted in: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/19/534
>>>
>>> The one that fix up the cppflags usage.
>>>
>>> I think this will solve the issue with blackfin nicely - and
>>> make use of cppflags more as expected.
>>
>> As Mike noted - your patch does not strip the double quotes. And Mike's
>> patch is really minimal, it just adds the SYMBOL_PREFIX definition to
>> _a_flags. I'll look at your patch after this merge window.
>
> why am i seeing __initramfs_size failures in mainline now ?

ping ... it looks like no one merged the VMLINUX_SYMBOL() changes in
usr/initramfs_data.S proposed by Hendrik
-mike
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