Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:13:42 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 11:15 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Steven Rostedt (rostedt@goodmis.org) wrote: > > After applying David's "remove align" patch, I got it to boot on x86_64 > > with the following two patches. I thought just adding the "align" to the > > structure declaration would work, but it still failed on the syscall for > > init_module. By removing the double "declaration" of event_exit_##sname, > > removed this problem. > > > > I'll test this on x86 32bit and PPC 64. If it works there, I'll push all > > of them out for 38. Should these go to 37 stable too? > > Please hold before adding these patches into git. They don't seem to address the > underlying problem correctly. See the latest exchanges between David Miller and > myself for more info. > > We need to come up with something better than "it boots" as an explanation for > the fix.
Yes, I agree that we should solve this issue correctly. But if there is a work around to the problem, we could implement that if the real solution is not in our grasp yet.
-- Steve
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