linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] external array access helpers

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:02:54 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] external array access helpers

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 07:05:22PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 10/16/2016 06:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 05:16:04PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The first two patches in the series fix the concrete bug (a boot crash
> > > when using gcc 7.0+) by defining new wrappers for arrays defined in
> > > linker scripts. These two patches should probably go into the kernel +
> > > stable as soon as people are happy with the new interface. Not sure who
> > > would pick this up, Greg maybe?
> > 
> > Ugh, that's messy, but nice fixup.  I can take these in my tree.  I'd
> > like to get others to review them first, but I can queue them up in a
> > week or so if there is no objections.
> 
> Thanks!

Ok, I didn't read the later patches, and as others pointed out, I can't
take patches without any changelog information, so those need to be
redone.

I'm also a bit worried about the naming of this, I'll respond to the
first patch about those issues.

thanks,

greg k-h