On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:13:21 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > > Ok, this problem seems to still persist in 2.6.23-rc8-mm2. It seems we > > have three options from here: > > 1) update the compiler support list to exclude these compilers, or > > 2) back this change out, or > > 3) switch to the version not using __weak. > > The latter seems to be the least intrusive change. As no-one closer to > > the problem is stepping up to make the decision I will propose we go > > with the third option here. > > Andrew, > > if you agree with Andy that we should support compilers that don't work > with __weak, please drop i386-and-x86_64-randomize-brk.patch and replace > it with the one below instead (this has been already posted at > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/31/113). Thanks. > We have quite a few instances of __weak in there. What is special about this one? > > From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > i386 and x86_64: randomize brk() That's a better patch anyway. We often use __weak because people can't be bothered doing all that editing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
