Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:53:29 +0100 | From | Eric Valette <> | Subject | Re: Typo in linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S |
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On 16/03/2011 21:44, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 21:32 +0100, Eric Valette wrote: > > >>> The old binutils never complained. >> >> Anyway this show once again that the world like symetry and you better >> remember it ;-) (lock/unlock, malloc free, ...) > > Right, but it should be a warning not an error. If it worked before, why > not work now and just warn about it. This "BUG" existed forever in the > kernel, and its in more than one place. Having the compiler crash on the > first instance means you need to fix it and run the compiler again to > find the next instance and so on.
Yes like any other name change in a .h file with incompatible function signature...
The exact error message is a complaint about the .size directive not being a "constant"...
> binutils made a fatal error in making this a bug and not an warning. > >> >> Probably a stable candidate for 2.6.38.1 > > Perhaps, but what about all older kernels. Now this version of binutils > does not work for bisecting.
I guess its binutils git of the 2011/03/02
As far as I'm concerned I only found one occurence on one machine although I compiled tree 2.6.38 kernels for different machines. because its under the CONFIG_KVM_GUEST flag
--eric
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