From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove spinlock workaround for pre 2.95 gccs
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:00:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030620030225.952512C05E@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:18:19 +0200." <20030619211819.GA12716@averell>
In message <20030619211819.GA12716@averell> you write:
> Advantage is that gcc 2.95 and 3.x compiled kernels are now binary
> compatible. Unfortunately module loading still checks the compiler
> version, but I guess that could be taken out now. As far as I know
> there should be no compiler related incompatibilities now.
Good point, Andi. And if any particular arch has compiler version
issues it can add it back in the arch-specific part.
Patch is as trivial. If noone else can think of any problems?
Cheers,
Rusty.
diff -urpN --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.72-bk2/include/linux/vermagic.h working-2.5.72-bk2-compiler-version/include/linux/vermagic.h
--- linux-2.5.72-bk2/include/linux/vermagic.h 2003-02-18 11:18:56.000000000 +1100
+++ working-2.5.72-bk2-compiler-version/include/linux/vermagic.h 2003-06-20 12:57:51.000000000 +1000
@@ -19,5 +19,4 @@
#define VERMAGIC_STRING \
UTS_RELEASE " " \
MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT \
- MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC \
- "gcc-" __stringify(__GNUC__) "." __stringify(__GNUC_MINOR__)
+ MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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2003-06-19 21:18 Andi Kleen
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