On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:18:38PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > On Monday 23 January 2006 5:05 pm, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > I'd appreciate if somebody with gcc 4.0.1 could test this kernel patch > > below. > > > > Ralf > Is that for 2.4? 2.4 is a no go for all architectures with gcc >= 4.0.0 and in case of MIPS even gcc 3.4 is somewhat dubious. > 2.6 doesn't seem to have that problem.. It's probably a matter of configuration then. Basically with our current uaccess.h and gcc >= 4.0.1 the attempt to pass a pointer to a const variable as the pointer argument to get_user or __get_user will blow up. It's always been a bug - but gcc before 4.0.1 were accepting this silently. Ralf
