Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: i386-vmlinuxldss-distinguish-absolute-symbols.patch added to -mm tree | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:40:05 -0700 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I wonder why this patch >> (i386-vmlinuxldss-distinguish-absolute-symbols.patch) isn't merged? > > Sam said scary things about it at the time but yes, it seems that things > ended up OK. > > But Eric hasn't come back with the patch (>3 months) so perhaps its not > very important, or is unneeded?
Mostly this is a piece of making the kernel relocatable, and I have been holding off on that set of patches until I can get the rest of the patches I have worked on for kexec on panic merged.
I can only track so many bug reports at a time :)
This patch stands by itself so it should not be a problem.
One of the things I discovered when working with this patch is that ld when can't actually cope with absolute symbols in a shared library and will try and relocate them anyway. I have code in my tree that works around that particular ld bug but it is nowhere near as nice as just specifying -shared when linking. This patch is indeed needed for that.
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