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Re: Release 2.26 - Next week ?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:11:01 +1030
- Subject: Re: Release 2.26 - Next week ?
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 05:25:16PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> binutils change broke kernel. My solution is to fix the kernel
> and provide a kernel patch in binutils release note.
We will certainly be fixing the kernel. There's a quick hack patch
attached to pr19421, and I also have another patch that teaches
modpost that .TOC. is special and removes the need for the kernel to
export .TOC. (which value isn't even used by modules).
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM