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From:   Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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On 9/15/21 9:47 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:35 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrot=
e:
>>
>> On a side note, we may revive the parisc patch. Helge isn't entirely
>> happy with the other solution for parisc; it is quite invasive and
>> touches a total of 19 files if I counted correctly.
>
> Ok, my suggestion to use the linker was not a "do it this way", it
> really was just a "maybe alternate approach". So no objections if
> absolute_pointer() ends up being the simpler solution.

Yes, it's a lot simpler and makes backporting patches later much easier.
I'll send a pull request with the updated parisc patch tomorrow.

Thanks,
Helge