Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261474AbUJPTGh (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:06:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261610AbUJPTGh (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:06:37 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:1298 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261474AbUJPTGf (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:06:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:06:27 +0100 From: Russell King To: Dan Kegel , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Martin Schaffner , Kevin Hilman , bertrand marquis Subject: Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well (was: Re: 2.6.8 link failure for sparc32 (vmlinux.lds.s: No such file or directory)?) Message-ID: <20041016200627.A20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Kegel , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Martin Schaffner , Kevin Hilman , bertrand marquis References: <414FC41B.7080102@kegel.com> <58517.194.237.142.24.1095763849.squirrel@194.237.142.24> <4164DAC9.8080701@kegel.com> <20041016210024.GB8306@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20041016210024.GB8306@mars.ravnborg.org>; from sam@ravnborg.org on Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:00:24PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1393 Lines: 31 On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:00:24PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:57:29PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > >On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:40:24PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > >> 683 2328 27265 linux-2.6.8-build_on_case_insensitive_fs-1.patch > > >> 28 122 1028 linux-2.6.8-noshared-kconfig.patch > > > > > >Can you please post these two patches. > > >The fist I hope is very small today. > > > > OK, here they are, plus a third one that also seems neccessary: > > > > This one's by Martin Schaffner: > > http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.28-rc37/patches/linux-2.6.8/linux-2.6.8-build_on_case_insensitive_fs.patch > > > Most of this is done in current linus-BK. I'm planning to handle > asm-offset in another way and will then start to get rid of .S -> .s Converting .S -> .s is useful for debugging - please don't cripple the kernel developers just because some filesystems are case-challenged. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - 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/