linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

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Date:   Sun, 4 Dec 2016 12:44:41 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com> wrote:
>
> As far as reverting the binutils commit goes, I'm quite willing to do
> that if necessary

I think we have the proper fix in the kernel now, witht he "mark weak
asm symbols with value 0". Or if not "proper", then at least
acceptable. So I think the ship has sailed on the binutils change, and
there's no point in reverting it any more.

          Linus