From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262574AbUEFPV6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:21:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262585AbUEFPV6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:21:58 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:11747 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262574AbUEFPV5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:21:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:21:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Zephaniah E. Hull" Cc: eric.valette@free.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RE : 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 : REGPARAM forced => no external module with some object code only Message-Id: <20040506082132.05686482.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040506124454.GA12921@babylon.d2dc.net> References: <4098D65D.9010107@free.fr> <20040505131809.10bdcae6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040506124454.GA12921@babylon.d2dc.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Zephaniah E. Hull" wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:18:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Eric Valette 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. > > Any guess on when REGPARAM and 4KSTACKS will end up in Linus' tree? Tomorrow? Linus will probably have some opinions on that, but if we're going to do this thing we need to do it early in the cycle.