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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	tony.luck@intel.com, anton@samba.org, paulus@samba.org,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:50:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ADD9E9.8090908@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080208223341.GB15333@jurassic.park.msu.ru>

Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into
> read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global
> generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for
> struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes compile
> failures due to 'section type conflict' in those rare cases where
> param_set/get are local functions.
> 
> This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8964

In case you weren't aware already, people seem to think this is actually 
a GCC bug (with a patch available):

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31490

Daniel


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-09 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-08 22:33 Ivan Kokshaysky
2008-02-08 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-08 23:35   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2008-02-09 16:50 ` Daniel Drake [this message]

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