Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262041AbUKJVUc (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:20:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262122AbUKJVUc (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:20:32 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:59147 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262041AbUKJVUS (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:20:18 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Use -ffreestanding? Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:01:26 -0500 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: <419281A6.5030106@tmr.com> References: <20041110014516.GC4089@stusta.de><20041108134448.GA2456@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1100121102 19868 192.168.12.100 (10 Nov 2004 21:11:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 19 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>I'm open for examples why this actually doesn't work, but after my >>(limited) testin I'd suggest the patch below for inclusion in the next >>-mm. > > > When was -ffreestanding introduced? Iow, it might not work with all > compiler versions.. Apart from that, I think it makes sense. From RH 7.3: gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113) -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/