Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro | From | Helge Deller <> | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:30:37 +0200 |
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On 9/15/21 9:47 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:35 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: >> >> On a side note, we may revive the parisc patch. Helge isn't entirely >> happy with the other solution for parisc; it is quite invasive and >> touches a total of 19 files if I counted correctly. > > Ok, my suggestion to use the linker was not a "do it this way", it > really was just a "maybe alternate approach". So no objections if > absolute_pointer() ends up being the simpler solution.
Yes, it's a lot simpler and makes backporting patches later much easier. I'll send a pull request with the updated parisc patch tomorrow.
Thanks, Helge
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