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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: RE : 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 : REGPARAM forced => no external module with
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Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr> wrote:
>
> The Changelog says nothing really important but forcing REGPARAM is 
>  rather important : it breaks any external module using object only code 
>  that calls a kernel function.

This is why we should remove the option - to reduce the number of ways in
which the kernel might have been built.  Yes, there will be a bit of
transition pain while these people catch up.