Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755168AbXI0MDe (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751273AbXI0MD0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:03:26 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:2789 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751226AbXI0MDZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:03:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:03:08 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Jiri Kosina , Andrew Morton Cc: Franck Bui-Huu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kamalesh Babulal Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm1 -- powerpc link failure Message-ID: <20070927120308.GJ2213@shadowen.org> References: <20070925014625.3cd5f896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070925134653.GB8447@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SPF-Guess: neutral Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1029 Lines: 25 > actually, my first patch wasn't using weak symbols, but I have been > convinced that it's the way to go(tm). Please see > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/1/131 and the ongoing thread. > > I am fine with replacing the brk randomization patch with the one that > wasn't using weak symbols (posted in the mentioned thread too), I have no > strong opinion either way. Ok, this problem seems to still persist in 2.6.23-rc8-mm2. It seems we have three options from here: 1) update the compiler support list to exclude these compilers, or 2) back this change out, or 3) switch to the version not using __weak. The latter seems to be the least intrusive change. As no-one closer to the problem is stepping up to make the decision I will propose we go with the third option here. -apw - 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/