Re: [PATCH 00/12] external array access helpers

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 05:16:04PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The first two patches in the series fix the concrete bug (a boot crash
> when using gcc 7.0+) by defining new wrappers for arrays defined in
> linker scripts. These two patches should probably go into the kernel +
> stable as soon as people are happy with the new interface. Not sure who
> would pick this up, Greg maybe?

Ugh, that's messy, but nice fixup.  I can take these in my tree.  I'd
like to get others to review them first, but I can queue them up in a
week or so if there is no objections.

Is gcc 7.0 "stable" enough that people will start to be using it soon?

thanks,

greg k-h