From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757035Ab1JNW0s (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:26:48 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:44126 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752584Ab1JNW0r (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:26:47 -0400 Subject: Re: Please include const-sections into linux-next From: James Bottomley To: Andi Kleen Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20111013233818.GB26654@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20111013233818.GB26654@one.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:26:44 -0500 Message-ID: <1318631204.3018.101.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 01:38 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Stephen, > > Please include > git://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc.git const-sections > in linux-next. This has a tree sweep to fix all kind of constant > section issues. > > I intend to send Linus a pull request next cycle and would like > to get some testing in next first. > > I got various acks last time it was posted and added them all. > In general it falls more in the "trivial" category, but it's > rather large and all over so I may have made a mistake. It's not incredibly trivial: it causes a compile failure on parisc: mm/percpu.c:1372: error: __setup_str_percpu_alloc_setup causes a section type conflict make[1]: *** [mm/percpu.o] Error 1 I have no idea why, though. James