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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>,
Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
adurbin@chromium.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix __earlycon_table stride... again
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:34:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180323133448.GA3434@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180320175712.201572-1-djkurtz@chromium.org>
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:57:10AM -0600, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> The __earlycon_table lives in a special "__earlycon_table" section. The
> contents of this table are added using some macros that deposit individual
> struct earlycon_id entries into this section. The linker then defines a symbol
> __earlycon_table that is supposed to contain the addresss of the first of these
> entries. The code in earlycon.c and fdt.c then tries to access the memory
> pointed to by __earlycon_table as an array of struct earlycon_id entries.
>
> Unfortunately, the compiler doesn't always place the entries such that they
> are an array. Let's fix that.
>
> Patch 1 of the series is a fix that should hopefully fix a kbuild error that
> seems to be triggered by Patch 2.
Doesn't seem like that worked :(
And I have a bunch of different versions of this patch in my to-review
queue, and I can't figure out which is the "latest" one.
Can you resend it, after getting the build error fixed, so I know which
to attempt to apply?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-23 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-20 17:57 Daniel Kurtz
2018-03-20 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] serial: sh-sci: Remove __initdata attribute for struct 'port_cfg' Daniel Kurtz
2018-03-20 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] earlycon: Use a pointer table to fix __earlycon_table stride Daniel Kurtz
2018-03-20 18:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-03-23 2:54 ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-23 13:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-03-24 4:49 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix __earlycon_table stride... again Daniel Kurtz
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