Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756063Ab0HQPAo (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:00:44 -0400 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:38121 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754385Ab0HQPAm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:00:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:00:35 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Daney , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Daney , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: remove RELOC_HIDE on __pa_symbol Message-ID: <20100817150035.GC17861@linux-mips.org> References: <1281297456-2711-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com> <4C5F8ED8.90301@gmail.com> <20100809122147.GA23053@linux-mips.org> <1281409628.1670.11.camel@leonhard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1281409628.1670.11.camel@leonhard> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 20 On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:07:08PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: > I've sent basically same patch to x86 folks [1] and they said there is a > possiblility of miscompilation on gcc 3. I am not sure the same goes > here on mips but it might be safer to keep it. Sorry for the noise ;-( > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/8/138 So in a distant future when GCC 3.x will finally be retired we will be able to apply this patch, sigh. I'll drop your patch for the time being and add a comment to the code. Thanks! Ralf -- 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/