Re: Urgent: x86-32 and GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 18 2012 - 15:13:43 EST


On 05/18/2012 12:11 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> 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)?
>
> All 4 of those patches? They look simple and "sane" to me. They solve
> the problem even with the "buggy" binutils, right? If so, sure, I'll
> take those after they land in Linus's tree, which I'm guessing will be
> for 3.5-rc1, right?
>

We think they fix the problem even with the buggy binutils... and will
throw an error if they don't. I intend to push them for 3.5-rc1, but
Linus may want something for 3.4.

-hpa

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