Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756861AbYLaVXv (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:23:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751847AbYLaVXm (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:23:42 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60340 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbYLaVXl (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:23:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:22:53 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Andrew Morton cc: Roland Dreier , Ingo Molnar , Ian Campbell , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Helge Deller , Rusty Russell , linux-parisc , Linux Kernel Development , Kyle McMartin , Randolph Chung , Sam Ravnborg , John David Anglin Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) In-Reply-To: <20081231105425.9ccac21d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <4959346E.7060600@gmx.de> <200812310915.41693.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <495B5806.3080505@gmx.de> <20081231105425.9ccac21d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 22 On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian claimed that it was gcc-4.1.0 and 4.1.1 only. He proposed > banning them: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/5/444 If it really is just those releases, then yes, considering the number of cases we apparently have, and considering how ugly it is in some cases to move the weak function anywhere else, maybe banning those versions is the proper thing to do. It probably won't hurt very many people - yeah, some people will be forced to upgrade, but I have this memory of early 4.1 having had other bugs anyway, so it's probably a good idea. Linus -- 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/