From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] -fstack-protector feature for the kernel (try 2)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:15:35 +0200
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On Wednesday 16 August 2006 18:48, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the gcc -fstack-protector feature to
> the kernel. While gcc 4.1 supports this feature for userspace, the patches
> to support it for the kernel only got added to the gcc tree on 27/7/2006
> (eg for 4.2); it is expected that several distributors will backport this
> patch to their 4.1 gcc versions. (For those who want to know more, see gcc
> PR 28281)

FWIW -- my queue for 2.6.19 is already quite full and I'm
in the stabilization phase for the merge.

I will merge these patches post the 2.6.19 merge window into
my tree for .20.

-Andi

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