Re: Urgent: x86-32 and GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 18 2012 - 14:52:49 EST


On 05/18/2012 11:41 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 09:51:44AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 05/18/2012 09:50 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> A small testcase:
>>>
>>
>> Right, but we can equally well just let the postprocessing tool throw an
>> error.
>
> That would probably be the best thing to do right now, and we can
> backport that to the stable kernel releases also to ensure they work
> properly.
>

So the question is: do you want to simply take the patches from the
trampoline branch (which are reasonably tested) or do a minimal backport
which only throws an error (which would not be)?

-hpa

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