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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:05:54 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Lu, Hongjiu" <hongjiu.lu@...el.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]x86: make relocatable kernel work with new binutils
 -resend


* Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 18:17 +0800, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > @@ -142,6 +140,11 @@ SECTIONS
> > >  		CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
> > >  
> > >  		DATA_DATA
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> > > +		jiffies = jiffies_64;
> > > +#else
> > > +		jiffies_64 = jiffies;
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > I suspect this needs a comment, as to the unsuspecting reader it looks like black 
> > magic :-)
>
> does this one look better?

Yeah, thanks!

	Ingo
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