Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:11:09 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.26-rc2
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:57:12AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Marcelo,
> 
> Any chance of getting this patch in before 2.4.26 final?
> 
> This patch is needed for compiling 2.4 with recent versions of gcc,
> such as the gcc 3.3.3 hammer branch or gcc 3.4.  The gcc developers
> changed the name of the attribute that indicates that something is
> actually needed, even though gcc can't see why, from "__unused__" to
> "__used__".  This patch copes with that.
> 
> The patch is from Stephen Rothwell.  He discovered the problem on
> ppc64, but in fact it would exist on any architecture.

Applied, 

thanks!
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