Re: [PATCH v8 1/6] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power and x86

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Mar 11 2018 - 17:23:22 EST


On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm sure all of these architectures define some kind of 32-bit place
> relative relocation in their ELF psABI, and I see how it would be
> cleaner to change everything at once, but I anticipate a long tail of
> issues with toolchains for niche architectures that I have no way to
> test.

Ok, fair enough.

Linus