Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 3.18 059/101] x86/um: thin archives build fix

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Apr 15 2018 - 11:02:30 EST


On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 02:29:11PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 00:41:22 +0000
>Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 827880ec260ba048f95fe646b96a205c394fa0f0 ]
>>
>> The linker does not like vdso-syms.lds in input archive files.
>> Make it an extra-y instead.
>
>I wouldn't say these should be needed on kernels without thin
>archives build.
>
>It shouldn't hurt, but no point risking stable breakage.
>
>Thanks,
>Nick

Now dropped, thanks Nick!