Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:37:32 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) |
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 15:24:01 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Adrian claimed that it was gcc-4.1.0 and 4.1.1 only. He proposed > > > banning them: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/5/444 > > > > If it really is just those releases, then yes, considering the number of > > cases we apparently have, and considering how ugly it is in some cases > > to move the weak function anywhere else, maybe banning those versions is > > the proper thing to do. > > > > It probably won't hurt very many people - yeah, some people will be > > forced to upgrade, but I have this memory of early 4.1 having had other > > bugs anyway, so it's probably a good idea. > > That would be _really_ nice to do IMHO
I wonder if we should do it in -stable too. Probably yes.
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