Re: [GIT v2] Clean up option handling

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On 6/24/09, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Alan Jenkins napsal(a):
>> Michal Marek wrote:
>>> Jon Masters napsal(a):
>>>
>>>> Ok, I tested the different trees I was sent and then redid the master
>>>> tree just now. But I'm not finished fixing the breakage introduced in
>>>> merging the latest bits from Michal Marek - so give it a few hours as
>>>> I'm going to sleep now before I finish it up.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, I didn't know you already merged them. I would happily rebase my
>>> patches on top of Andreas' and Alan's changes if you asked me to :).
>>>
>>> Michal
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure that's the problem.  The patches are applied to Jons tree,
>> but the tests fail (tests/runtests -vv).  I bisected it to "elfops:
>> cleanup load_symbols()".
>
> It fails to find the exported symbol in tests/data/src/export_dep.c,
> which does it the old, pre-2.5.59 way (symbol names in the kernel_symbol
> struct directly). My patch removes support for that, so the failure
> isn't surprising here :-). Do we still care about such old kernels, or
> can I update the test?

Go ahead.  Jon removed back-compat for the "stable" 2.4 kernels, I'm
sure he's happy to drop cruft that only existed in the "unstable" 2.5
series.

And feel free to re-run the test to check for any other breakages :-).

Thanks
Alan
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