Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754706AbaAAT5p (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:57:45 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58215 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754556AbaAAT5n (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:57:43 -0500 Message-ID: <52C47170.9050702@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:50:08 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds , "Yann E. MORIN" CC: Kees Cook , David Rientjes , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Russell King - ARM Linux , Ralf Baechle , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Arjan van de Ven , James Hogan , Michal Marek , Paul Mundt , Shawn Guo , Stephen Rothwell , linux-kbuild , Sam Ravnborg , "linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [patch core/stackprotector] stackprotector: Fix build when compiler lacks support References: <1387481759-14535-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <20140101114244.GB3372@free.fr> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 20 On 01/01/2014 11:33 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ack. Looks good to me. I've wanted this for a long time for other > reasons, we should finally just do it. > Yes, we keep avoiding doing this by layering hack upon hack, but really... it needs to be done. The chief objection I've heard is that it makes "make oldconfig" necessary after a compiler change, but that seems entirely reasonable. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/