On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 04:28:22AM -0400, Tao Guo wrote: >> gas in binutils(2.16.91) could not parse parentheses within macro >> parameters unless fully parenthesized, and this is a workaround to >> make old gas work without generating below errors: >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages: >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:387: Error: too many positional arguments >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:389: Error: too many positional arguments >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:390: Error: too many positional arguments >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:391: Error: too many positional arguments >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:392: Error: too many positional arguments >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:393: Error: too many positional arguments >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:394: Error: too many positional arguments >> >> Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <glorious...@gmail.com> >> --- >> arch/x86/include/asm/calling.h | 48 >> +++++++++++++++++++-------------------- >> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 20 ++++++++-------- >> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) > > <formletter> > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > for how to do this properly. > > </formletter>
Thanks Greg, I just realized that I followed the old rules in an old Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt file. Since the patches for other stable branches will be a little different from this one, I will send them later to sta...@vger.kernel.org after this patch gets accepted. Thanks, -Tao -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
