Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966623Ab2ERTNr (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2012 15:13:47 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47082 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759285Ab2ERTNp (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2012 15:13:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4FB69F5A.2060808@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 12:13:30 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: "H.J. Lu" , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jarkko Sakkinen Subject: Re: Urgent: x86-32 and GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1 References: <4FB67146.9080804@zytor.com> <4FB67697.50904@zytor.com> <4FB67CD6.8040103@zytor.com> <4FB67E20.6080300@zytor.com> <20120518184121.GA3371@kroah.com> <4FB69A75.30507@zytor.com> <20120518191103.GA11715@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20120518191103.GA11715@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 23 On 05/18/2012 12:11 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> >> So the question is: do you want to simply take the patches from the >> trampoline branch (which are reasonably tested) or do a minimal backport >> which only throws an error (which would not be)? > > All 4 of those patches? They look simple and "sane" to me. They solve > the problem even with the "buggy" binutils, right? If so, sure, I'll > take those after they land in Linus's tree, which I'm guessing will be > for 3.5-rc1, right? > We think they fix the problem even with the buggy binutils... and will throw an error if they don't. I intend to push them for 3.5-rc1, but Linus may want something for 3.4. -hpa -- 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/