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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:42:21 +0000 From: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@....verizon.com> To: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@...s.com> CC: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@....verizon.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@...tec.com>, "linux-mips@...ux-mips.org" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for-4.4 39/39] MIPS: Use Makefile.postlink to insert relocations into vmlinux On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 09:16:44AM +0000, Matt Redfearn wrote: > > >On 08/11/17 20:50, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote: >>From: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@...tec.com> >> >>[ Upstream commit 44079d3509aee89c58f3e4fd929fa53ab2299019 ] >> >>When relocatable support for MIPS was merged, there was no support for >>an architecture to add a postlink step for vmlinux. This meant that only >>invoking a target within the boot directory, such as uImage, caused the >>relocations to be inserted into vmlinux. Building just the vmlinux >>target would result in a relocatable kernel with no relocation >>information present. >> >>Commit fbe6e37dab97 ("kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile") > >Hi, > >This patch depends on upstream commit fbe6e37dab97 ("kbuild: add arch >specific post-link Makefile") which was introduced in v4.9. > >This patch is an improvement to the build flow and I would not >consider it for backporting - certainly not to v4.8 or earlier which >is missing the dependency. Applying it will not break anything, >however, it will perform no function either without the supporting >dependency. I'll just drop it from 4.9 and 4.4 then, Thanks Matt. -- Thanks, Sasha
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