Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:37:32 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
       Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
       Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
       Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       linux-parisc <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>, Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
       John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel
 modules (take 4)
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 15:24:01 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> That would be _really_ nice to do IMHO

I wonder if we should do it in -stable too.  Probably yes.
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