To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
       "Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:40:36 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0712201615580.9531@chaos.analogic.com> (linux-os@analogic.com's message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:23:12 -0500")
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 > It doesn't seem to be something in .config. Do you know how to
 > reconfigure to get parameter passing put back like it was? Our
 > production applications have lots of assembly-language files
 > and I'm sure we are not going to be able to change all those!

32-bit x86 uses regparm=3 by default now since commit a1a70c25 ("i386:
always enable regparm"), which went in about a year ago.  To go back
to the old way, you'll just have to edit arch/x86/Makefile_32 (and
rebuild your whole kernel from a clean tree, obviously).

 - R.
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