Hi Ben,

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:28:47 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> 
wrote:
>
> The creation of the flattened device tree depended on the compiler
> putting the constant strings for an object in a section with a
> particular name.  This was changed with recent compilers.  Do this
> explicitly instead.
> 
> Without this patch, iseries kernels may silently not boot when built with
> some compilers.

So this is probably a candidate for 2.6.32 and maybe some of the stable
releases (if anyone cares enough).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    s...@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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